On Thursday, March 24, Edna Maguire will sponsor "The Thousand Cranes Project" for Earthquake and Tsunami Relief in Japan. We, along with Principal Zimmer, encourage each child to bring $1 - preferably of his or her own money - to contribute to a class envelope.
At the end of the day, we will collect the envelopes and make a cash contribution to the Salesforce.com Foundation on behalf of Edna Maguire. Salesforce.com Foundation will match our funds, dollar for dollar, and will work with a Japan-based organization focused on emergency relief and recovery efforts. For more information, and to make your own additional contributions, please go to SalesForce.com Foundation Thank you Edna parent and Salesforce.com Foundation Executive Director, Suzanne DiBianca, for facilitating this for us!
We also hope the students of Edna Maguire will join us in folding 1,000 origami cranes as a symbolic gesture to the children of Japan. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. We will be folding cranes in some of the classrooms and at lunch recess but will need more than one crane from each student to reach our goal of 1000. If you would like to make a crane at home, please stop by the office to pick up a piece of origami paper and click here to view written and video instructions. Once we have 1000 cranes, we will deliver them to the Japanese consulate as a gesture of good will. We hope the cranes will then be forwarded to a school or orphanage in Japan.
You can also find more information on how to help the earthquake victims, and make donations to the American Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief, at www.redcross.org. Or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
If you have any questions, please contact Janie Karp at jkarpj@comcast.net or Kit Harris at kitharris57@gmail.com. If you would like to help with the cranes, please contact Mari Allen at allenmari@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your care and support.
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