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Students at Enterprise High School in Birmingham Alabama are supporting Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in their own creative way. The school’s librarian Karen Haglund came up with the idea to get students involved in the awareness event, and ensured yellow ribbons are donated to each child from the local Children’s Hospital.
The school is filled with strings of student-made origami cranes based on the traditional Japanese practice. The school’s Anchor Club, which is chaired by Karen Haglund, is encouraging all students to participate in the event. As many as 950 cranes have already been folded, and the goal is to create a crane for every student and staff member who wishes for a cure to childhood cancer.
The Anchor Club is supported by the entire school, and received endorsements from members of the community. The cranes encourage students, faculty, and all family members to make donations for cancer research to the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Donations to the hospital began on September 9, and the hospital will continue collecting donations from the school until September 20.
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is a month-long event that will continue until the end of September. The event is supported by education centres such as Birmingham’s EHS, as well as hospitals, physicians, and cord blood banking facilities in regions across North America.