On June 12, 2019, in the frameworks of the Light Cranes Program atHematology Center after professor Yeolyan took place the ceremony of the donation of 1000 cranes.
During the interview with the journalists, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Japan in the Republic of Armenia Jun Yamada mentioned that the cranes made of origami type of paper are counseled for happiness in Japan.
Highlighting the initiative, the executive director of the charity foundation “Town of Smiles” Ester Demirchyan noted that it encourages and once more focuses on our children.
The director of Hematology center Samvel Danielyan presented the legend of the Japanese origami cranes and noted that it was dedicated to the children with leukemia who became ill after the disaster in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “After the disaster one of the children decided to make cranes and to send to different places. And after she has sent 1000 cranes she would recover from the illness” he told.
The wife of the Prime Minister Anna Hakobyan and the Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan were present at the event.
Sadako believed in the Japanese legend according to which if you folded 1000 cranes with the paper, your dream would come true. During the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, Sadako was only 2 years old. The consequences of bombing appeared 10 years passed. At hospital, she started to make cranes with all the papers at hand even with medicine boxes and prescriptions. Dreaming about recovering, she died when making the 644th crane. Her friends finished the girl’s work by increasing the quantity of cranes to 1000 and Sadako was buried together with those cranes.
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translated from Armenian into English by M.Vardanyan