We have brought smiles when we delivered a thousand cranes and the big crane from San Francisco to Masue Elementary School on September 15, 2017. Students are studying in temporary school facility after the rainstorm, which hit Kyushu in July and flooded the school.
目的 / Mission
日本の折り紙文化をSFに住む子供たちに伝えつつ、怪我や病気で子供たちに向けてメッセージと募金を募りたいと思います。今回は最近7月に福岡の九州北部豪雨で被害にあった方々に千羽鶴とドネーションをおくります。
We want to introduce Japan’s art of origami to children in San Francisco. Our goal is to send messages and donation towards children suffering from illness and injuries during the recent severe rainstorm in Fukuoka that affected over 519,000 people.
1日でも早く元気になるよう、気持ちを込めて折り鶴を折ってもらい、千羽鶴を作ります。また巨大折り鶴にメッセージを書いてもらいます。
We plan to fold our feelings and prayers for the early recovery of people affected in the rainstorm into 1,000 origami cranes. The large origami crane will become a vessel, carrying heartfelt, hand-written messages for peace.
私達はボランティアで折り紙を教え、子供さん、一緒に来た家族の方にも楽しみながら折り紙を学んでもらうワークショップ形式の参加型アートイベントにして、募金を募ります。
Our event is a fun, interactive art workshop for children and their family members to learn origami from our volunteers. We will send the donation collected during the event towards people devastated by the storm.
このイベントにより、異なる文化や人種により感じる、私達の心の中にある壁を乗り越えて、一つになって、助けあうことを子供たちに知ってもらいたいです。世界に壁は存在しないのですから。
With this event, we want to bring people together and help each other, dismantling the wall inside of different culture.