Australian band Old Man River embarked on a heart-warming project earlier this year to offer disaster-stricken Japan some good tidings in the wake of their devastating earthquake. An old Japanese tradition states that whomever folds a thousand origami paper cranes will be granted one wish. Ohad Rein, leader of Old Man River, set out to do this with the intention of wishing Japan a speedy recovery from the events of March 11th 2011.
The enormous response saw people from all over the world folding one or more paper cranes to be sent to Japan with love. Last month, Ohad (through help from the Australian government) was able to personally deliver the origami paper cranes to the affected areas.
The website 1000cranesforjapan.net describes the project in full (with videos of Ohad’s visit to Japan).