What?

The word "senbazuru" translates literally from Japanese as "1,000 cranes". Legend has it that anyone who can fold that many figures into origami will get a chance to have their heart's desire come true.

This legend is the basis of the “MS - I Can Do It Myself” Foundation's campaign, which brings two dreams together. The first is for people to start taking care of themselves by spending a little time folding cranes, and thus start a very valuable personal practice - mindfulness training. The second is to raise £50,000 by folding cranes to provide funds for the prevention, the transformation and the treatment of people with MS.

You can help make these 2 dreams come true by joining in the origami folding and sending your cranes on a flying mission in the name of the cause.

How do I make my own crane for the campaign?

Option 1

• If you want to join the “1,000 Cranes” campaign, you can buy a box of blanks (1000 perfectly cut squares) from this website, with 10% of the proceeds going to the Foundation's special fund called “Andrey”.
• When you're done folding, you can send your cranes to “MS - I Can Do It Myself”, who in turn will convert them into a beautiful panel and look for "adopters" of the paper flock - corporate and private donors willing to purchase the handmade artwork.

Option 2

• You can choose not to buy an already made box, but to give the power to the artist in you by creating, drawing or modelling a crane with your hands based on your idea.
• Send the finished work to the team.

Option 3

• Share your idea with friends, neighbours, colleagues and organise a public folding. You can send the created cranes to the foundation team.

Here you can find a video tutorial that explains in detail how to make an origami crane at home.

When?

At the moment the campaign has no deadline.

Keep in mind that folding 1,000 cranes can take about 50 hours, which is 50 days if you spend an hour a day. You can also look at them as 3,000 minutes of time to yourself where you don't think about anything else.

Requirements for the origami?

You can use any paper, but it is important that the size of the square is no bigger than 15x15 cm.

Also, the cranes must be carefully packed so they don't get crushed on the way to the foundation.

NB! The organiser asks that you send at least 100 cranes. Shipments with fewer beauties seriously hinder the organisation.

Skills needed?

The folding of origami is not a hard job as there are thousands of videos of how to do it on the internet. You won’t need anything else apart from a piece of paper.

How will my crane reach the organisation?

You can send your finished work by courier at your expense or by handling them personally to the foundation team.

Click on the green “I’ll do it” button to see the addresses.

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