Vincent Birch, a kindergarten student at M.W. Savage Elementary School, didn’t bring treats to school to celebrate his birthday. Instead he asked his classmates to make origami paper cranes to show ...

BRIDGEPORT -- Burroughs & Saden children's librarian Sharon Breslow had a mission Wednesday. She called to passing people walking up and down the staircase. "Come sit," she said. Breslow sat behind a ...

In a gesture tied to Japanese culture, more than 200 people fashioned paper cranes in a fundraising effort Sunday in Vancouver’s Hough neighborhood. And before the five-hour event ended, nearly $2,000 ...

In an outpouring of support and solidarity with earthquake-stricken Japan, Cornell students donated more than $5,000 to a campuswide fundraising effort as of Wednesday evening.Members of the Japan ...

While you’re reading this, nearly two dozen fifth graders from the McGlynn Elementary School are folding origami cranes for a charity to benefit the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami — ...

In Japanese culture, an origami crane imparts good health, prosperity and a long life for the recipient. Now, with the Japanese people surveying devastation left by the recent earthquake and tsunami, ...

Seven schools participated in Young Post's "From Hong Kong to Japan with Love" campaign for Save The Children (STC). Students at the schools made thousands of origami paper cranes, wrote hundreds of ...

HAMILTON — Last year, fourth-graders at Ridgeway Elementary celebrated Right to Read week by learning to fold origami cranes. The project spun off their reading of “Sadako and the Thousand Paper ...

Japanese legend says 1,000 folded paper cranes strung together will lead to a wish granted by a crane, a holy creature. Rinko Yuki, 16, of the Thousand Paper Cranes, a multi-national student group of ...

Delaney Oblander and Fallon Sunrhodes, both 9, sat at a table in a Highland Elementary classroom with about a dozen other kids after school, carefully folding small squares of paper into origami ...