Requesting cooperation for the Paper Crane Project to commemorate ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kita-Suma Prefectural High School in Hyogo, ESD Promoting Committee
In July of this year, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted by the UN, and ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize. These events demonstrate that the aspiration to abolish nuclear weapons is growing. We launch this project to express our sympathy for victims of nuclear weapons, and to consider peace while folding paper cranes with a prayer for world peace.
Method of Implementation
(1) Students and teachers in each school fold paper cranes, take photos of cranes, write messages (for example, to ICAN for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, for world peace, or for abolishing nuclear weapons, etc.). Send these photos by attachment to the email address below. (Each school decides whether students fold the paper cranes, whether teachers show photos of students’ faces and whether they use the school name. When you send the email, please attach JPEG images with a file of less than 1Mb.)
(2) We will gather images from all over the world, organize them by country, and show them on our webpage. We will request that UNESCO show the photos on the UNESCO School Hope Page. We are planning to print and bring the photos to the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony and other related events.
Address and Inquiry: Kita-Suma Prefectural High School in Hyogo
ESD Promoting Committee
Thanks to the support of many schools, we gathered around 200,000 paper cranes in this summer’s paper crane project. We are very grateful for the support of these schools.
This time we plan to canvas UNESCO schools all over the world to ask them to join the project. This project can enhance the exchange of ideas in UNESCO schools all over the world. We ask your cooperation. The deadline for the project is December 7th so as to be in time for the award ceremony. However, we will accept images after this deadline and show them on our webpage.
Supporter: Mr. Yuji Sasaki is a nephew of Miss Sadako Sasaki, the model for the Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima. He donated paper cranes folded by Sadako to the Arizona Memorial and President Truman Museum. Through these donations he is acting to abolish nuclear weapons and realize world peace.
“I am moved that ICAN received Nobel Peace Prize. This is a successful outcome of A-bomb victims' sincere appeal for a world without nuclear weapons. I believe it is very meaningful for ICAN to receive the Nobel Peace Prize at this turning point in our history, as the past tends to be forgotten. Let's share this gratitude by folding paper cranes to congratulate ICAN on receiving the prize so that this can revitalize the epoch and connect people's hopes for peace.”
~ Sadako's nephew, Yuji Sasaki
「Students at Reitaku Junior and Senior High School in Japan explain how to make paper cranes in English.」
