Update from Japan

My Dad got an email from Dr. Miyazaki in Japan. It has been hard to send news. She has now sent the cranes to the Sendai area. Here is a picture of her and Dr. Lili Lui also from the University of Alberta. They are with the Hotel Manager of their hotel. He helped ship the cranes.

Johnny Bright Helps Japan

I got called down to the office by my principal, Mr. Miller. He showed me a cheque for the hard work all my school did for Japan.

Shipping the Cranes

We put all the cranes in my Dad's car today. He took them to Dr. Masako Miyazaki. She will take them to Japan next week. Below are pictures of the cranes in Dr. Miyazaki's car too.

Dr. Miyazaki also has cranes from other Cranes for Hope schools in Edmonton. She will be taking them to Japan on the 22nd.

Cranes from far Away

I received a package today from Mrs. Buhler's grade 1-2 class in St. Joseph's school in South Porcupine, Ontario. It contained a very nice letter and 56 cranes. The class of 21 kids also raised $163 for the Red Cross.

Thank you to Mrs. Buhler and the Grade 1-2 class of St. Joseph's for your hard work to help the people of Japan!

Results of my School's Work

Thursday, April 21, 2011, my whole school learned to fold paper cranes. 750 kids from kindergarden to grade 9 worked to reach my goal of 1,000 cranes.

Here are some pictures of our cranes and some of my fellow students.

We spent a lot of time this weekend counting the cranes. Here is my living room.

After counting them this weekend, we folded 779 cranes. My Baba made another 38 and my family made another 22. So far, we have 839 cranes. 161 to go.

To everyone in my school, thanks for your support in helping Japan.

Video for my school assembly - we are all making cranes!

Today, my Dad and I made a video of my comments to the school assembly I have been asked to speak at Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Here it is.

My whole school will be making cranes this week. Once we reach my goal, we will be having our cranes sent to Japan with the Cranes for Hope team.

Visit Cranes for Hope Too!

My blog is part of a bigger blog called Cranesforhope.ca. If you go there, there will be a link to my blog and many other things. My parents and I are working with a big team of people wanting to help people in Japan.

So far, my friends and family have made over 90 cranes. Next week, I get to share this blog and my message to my whole school with my Dad. I hope to have 1 crane for each person in my school and see at least $1 donated for each child in my school to the Red Cross.

All the cranes my school makes will go to Japan with donations in May with a group going to Japan to deliver them to schools. The cranes made by other schools will also be sent to Japanese schools to help then know we are helping them.

About Cranes for Kids

My name is Alan. I am 7 years old. I live in Canada. I am in Grade 2.

I saw what happened in Japan on TV and want to help.

I went to a meeting with my Dad last night to talk with people about how to help. I got an idea. I call it Cranes for Kids. One of the people at the meeting said that having 1,000 cranes makes all your dreams come true.

If I was in Japan, I would dream about making life normal again. This blog will share information that will help others like me help kids in Japan hurt in the earthquake.

My idea is that everyone in a school class could make a paper crane and bring $1 to school. Each class could collect their cranes and money and send that to kids in Japan who need the cranes and who need the money. The money could go to the Red Cross to help. Our schools could send the cranes to schools in Japan to give them to kids.

Join me in helping kids in Japan by making cranes and donations!

Here is a movie for making a paper crane.

Here is another site: http://origami.org.uk/origamicrane.

Here is where to give money to the Canadian and American Red Cross.