A T.J. Walker Middle School teacher, inspired by the book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," asked her students to help fold 1,000 paper cranes for a colleague battling cancer. Kasee Jandrin, a ...

The story of Sadako Sasaki, the young Hiroshima girl who folded paper cranes in hopes of surviving leukemia, has been embellished and dramatized through the years, said her older brother, who spoke on ...

Elementary School with boxes hoisted proudly above their heads. Inside were 1,000 paper cranes the students worked tediously to create, sacrificing recess and after-school time for months to craft ...

Megan Young/Daily. Buy this photo. She loved the way the paper felt against her fingertips. She slid her thumb across the crisp edge, creating yet another fold — the blueprint for what was to take ...

Presque Isle — There is one thing Dawn Rose learned from a project where she made 1,000 origami paper cranes in one year. “The one thing I took home is, if it’s something you truly want to do, you ...

Consider the story of Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year-old resident of Hiroshima, who, 10 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, developed leukemia. As she was in a hospital receiving treatment ...

SNOHOMISH — A tantrum in a toy store was Kim Crane’s introduction to the gentle art of Japanese paper folding. When her mother refused to buy her an origami kit, 6-year-old Kim began tearing up the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A thousand origami cranes fluttered from trees in the public courtyard between the Hamilton wing and the Residences at the Denver Art Museum for a few hours ...

The famed host of Jeopardy, Alex Trebek, continues his fight against pancreatic cancer. A Connecticut grade school wanted to make sure he knew that he was not alone. “He brings joy to the learning ...

Folded with precision and created with purpose, hundreds of paper cranes have been made by Luis Merino's classmates. The multi-colored origami birds have become beacons of hope for Luis, whose father ...