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In July this year, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted, and ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its unique approach for the abolition of the nuclear weapons. These events have demonstrated that the aspiration to abolish nuclear weapons has been growing. We have launched this project to express our sympathy for victims of nuclear weapons and to consider peace while folding paper cranes with a prayer for the world peace.
When I have talked to Asia Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO in Japan (ACCU), a coordinating organization for UNESCO Associated Schools in Japan, to seek a way to spread this project to all over the world, we have concluded that we ask support from those country coordinators listed in the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network website.
You can read more in this Google Document.
To join this project, please take the following procedure:
(1) Students and teachers in each school fold paper cranes.
Here is a link to a video clip of how to make paper cranes in English: This was made by one of the UNESCO Associated Schools in Japan, Reitaku Junior and Senior High School.