it's because my STINT team last year did this as well.
this year, since it was the 1 year anniversary of the Japan triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, we wanted to do something to remind the Japanese people that we still love them and are thinking/praying for them. so we set up tables and posters in the UH Hilo campus center plaza the entire week before the March 11th anniversary, bought out the craft store in origami paper, and encouraged students to join us in making 1,000 origami cranes to send to Japan. The event also instigated several spiritual conversations with people making cranes with us, since many students would sit down and make not just one, but ten or twenty cranes. We were able to ship these cranes to the Tokyo JCCC, and they brought them to Tohoku when they sent a relief team up there in March.
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| students making cranes with us in the plaza |
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the finished 1,000 cranes |
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| a student's note to Japan- "Smile, let the whole world know that today, you're much stronger than you were yesterday" Underneath, another crane reads "We are praying for Japan" in Japanese |
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