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Sadako Project
This raid, as well as the previous raid will be a charity raid, this time in favour of the ill children of Chernobyl and especially in favour of the children of the Orphanage of Krugloye, situated in the province of Moghilof in Bielorussia, one of the most affected regions of the nuclear radiation (one of the raid participants, Dr. Carlo Mascarin is a doctor). For this reason we intend to end our journey in Hiroshima, following the trace of solidarity and peace message, in order to awaken the public opinion to the two biggest nuclear tragedies of the XX century. The charitable activity, thanks also to the support of the Chernobyl Project Association of Abano Terme (PD), will permit to donate material and money to the Orphanage and also to start a project of professional education. This year is also the twentieth anniversary of the disaster of Chernobyl, reminded by all media. The symbol of our project is Sadako, the Japanese girl struck by the radiations at Hiroshima. According to the tradition she had had to make thousand paper cranes in order to be able to heal. Actually our mission will be also to take one thousand paper cranes, folded with the origami technique by the Italian school age children and by the Bielorussian children from the Krugloye Orphanage till Hiroshima, and then hang them, as the tradition wants, at the statue of the little Sadako, an universal symbol of the solidarity toward children. The story of Sadako, the girl who wanted to make 1000 paper cranes in order to be able to live. LOrigami is the art of folding the paper and one of the most famous origami forms is the Japanese crane. There is a legend about it that says that whoever folds one thousand paper cranes will have their heart’s wishes come true. A very young Japanese girl, Sadako, was exposed to the radiations of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima when she was a child and this affected her health in an irreversible way. Although she survived the atomic bomb she was dying of leukemia at 12 years in 1955. She heard the legend of the cranes and decided that she would fold one thousand paper cranes so that her wish of being able to survive would become true. Unfortunately her efforts couldn’t help her survive but her friends constructed a monument in Sadako's memory in Hiroshima's National Peace Park. The statue depicts Sadako standing with her hand outstretched and a paper crane flying from her fingertips.
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