Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945. Ten years later, she was diagnosed with leukaemia, and informed that she had only one year to live.
Sadako’s friends reminded her of a Japanese legend: that if you make a thousand paper cranes, you get one wish. Sadako spent the remainder of her life folding paper cranes but had only reached 644 when she died.
After her death, her friends continued making her paper cranes, and raised the money to build a monument in her honour.Now, children from all over the world fold paper cranes to be placed beneath her statue in commemoration of the atrocities suffered in Hiroshima.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Link: http://www.cnduk.org
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