As a part of the Children’s Book Fest that was held on the
15th and 16th of December 2012, in Goa. We were invited
to conduct a story-telling session and a workshop.
As we still believe that there are many many more children
that we need to reach out with the story of Sadako Sasaki, and her innocent cry
for peace in the world. We decided to take this opportunity to tell her story
and have some more T-shirts painted for the children back in Japan.
We had children from our support home Care and Compassion,
Panjim, children from the group Happy Karma Now, in Calangute, and children
from the Mobile Outreach Program of Bookworm, Goa.
The 16th of December session began with our
workshops, and we had a full audience. The entire center stage was full of
children. Katha, our founder read the story out to the children, and we also
explained it for some of them in Hindi.
The stage was already set for the T-shirt Painting
workshops, as the walk-in to the stage were already flagged with the old
painted T-shirts from the previous workshops, so when the children we asked to
paint, they had a direction.
To make it easier for the younger ones, we gave them
cut-outs of the crane to make it easier. The older children came up with some
really nice messages for their T-shirts.
We thank Ms Sujata Noronha and the team of Bookworm for
inviting us for this event. It was a larger platform for us to tell our story
and get support for the cause of the 1000 Crane Project. Also, thanks to
Sophie, Sarika and Davide, our volunteers who were there to help and support
us.
The 1000 Crane Project is now moving to its second phase,
where we are trying to connect with a children’s organization in Japan, who we
can send these T-shirts and also a sponsor who will help us ship the T-shirts
to Japan.
