A child with cancer gazes up at donated paper cranes from his hospital bed in Iran. The next morning, I learned that they had been put there by a volunteer group called Hezaran Dorna (which means ...

A teenager who made 1,000 paper cranes for good luck is to donate most of them to the hospital where she is recovering. Sophie Aldred, 15, was introduced to origami while at Bristol Royal Hospital ...

Mission Children’s Hospital agreed to receive the cranes from them. They will continue to fold the next 1,000 cranes to donate to other facilities. Please contact [email protected] or 828 ...

Linda Binder is on a mission to sell 1,000 paper cranes to benefit bone marrow recipients. ... On Nov. 8, 2014, she'll return to the hospital to say thanks for 30 years of survival.

Sadako resolved to fold another 1,000 paper cranes, even as her hair was falling out and she weakened. ... Meanwhile, the 1,500 cranes she already had folded filled her hospital room.

To this day, Japanese schoolchildren continue to send cranes by the thousands to Hiroshima in honor of Sadako. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, they sent 1,000 more to New York City.

In the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a young girl tried to fold 1,000 paper cranes in the hopes that it would help her push through a terminal illness. Years later, students across ...

She started stringing the cranes from branches about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. “I thought it was pretty,” she said. The work wasn’t meant to be permanent, but she wishes it had lived a little longer.

A group of Calgary teenagers are celebrating the Lunar New Year a month early this year — by donating roughly $1,200 worth of toys and 1,000 paper cranes to the Alberta Children's Hospital.

This version of the story is told in Eleanor Coerr’s “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,” an illustrated children’s book, which she describes as “historical fiction,” published in 1977.