Helping Hands from Big Bear, CA

There is a small community in Big Bear California (San Bernardino County) who has also started writing letters of encouragement and had an idea to make a thousand paper cranes for the survivors of the twin disasters in Japan. When they found out about our thousand cranes project, the organizer, Victoria Nagata, contacted us in early April and told us that they were looking for a school or community in Japan where they could send their cranes and letters.


After contacting Otsuchi, we found out that there are four more elementary schools in the town and that they have now joined together and reopened as one joint school. Victoria decided to host a community event last Tuesday to invite people to come to fold a thousand Origami cranes at their school in Big Bear California for these four elementary schools in Otsuchi, Japan.


Victoria sent us some pictures of children gathering at the multi purpose room, making cranes all night long. She told us that the event was successful and that they made close to 700 cranes in one night. Victoria was very happy to see all the people from her community come together to reach out to the children of Otsuchi. 


We are so pleased to see that there are other communities like ours who have made the effort to organize events like this. 


She'll be sending her thousand cranes as soon as they're done.

Thank you Big Bear Community! 

Making Origami Cranes

 The community of Big Bear came to make cranes.

 Carefully folding Origami

Writing a message to the people of Otsuchi!