The International "Crane of Peace for Beslan children" project was started on the 3rd of September, 2004.

The Beslan tragedy is the worst terror-related human catastrophe in the history of Russia. There are at least 350 victims, mostly children, who died as a direct result of this terror act. Over 700 victims, also mostly children, have been hospitalized, a large number of them with very serious injuries.

On September 11, 2001, Russian people and the whole world stood by the people of the United States, Canada, and all other countries whose citizens became victims of that unprecedented terrorist attack. The Beslan hostage crisis is an example of the same type of terrorism that has perpetrated the September 11th attack.

We are teaching how to fold a crane at Novorossiysk school #40 where children and parents from Novorossiysk come to donate what they can after the IAP "Peace Tree" invited all citizens to fold the cranes. Novorossiysk is not far from Beslan. Hundreds of cranes were sent to Beslan hospitals for the injured children.
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1. Some hundreds coloured cranes have been folded for injured Beslan children in Novorossiysk by schoolchildren from many local schools:

"Lichnost" school - Susanna, Sofica, Victoria, Iliya, Olga, Aleksey, Vlad, Anastasia, Yana, Victoria, Julia, Efim, Ivan, Michail, Anatoly...
"Bekar" school - Anna, Alina, Egor, Ekaterina, Anastasia, Tatiana, David, Roman, Daniil, Alina, Kirill, Anastasia, Alexander, Andrey, Ilia, Polina, Georgy, Anna, Stepan, Kristina, Valeriya, Dariya, Irina, Anastasia...
school #40 - Alena, Maria, Ocsana, Alena, Anna, Zoya, Olga, Liza, Kseniya, Alex, Svetlana, Violetta, Victoria, Maria, Slava, Anastasia, Alina, Victoria, Julia...
And hundreds other students from Novorossiysk schools #4, #22, #19, #10

Our hearts stood still as we heard about the tragedy the people of Beslan were facing. We wish them courage in the coming days and hope for a peaceful future. There are no words in any language to portray how devasted the people of Beslan must feel but please know that we have you in our hearts.
Rachel Katz
Long Island, New York

"Dear Dorothy, Rachel, Margaret, Arline, Ernest, Susan and Silvia thank you for your nice cranes and kind messages for Beslan children.
All of these are in Beslan now."

"Dear Dee, Helen and Gary thank you for your nice cranes for Beslan children.
All of cranes have been sent to Beslan."

"Dear May Peach and the Dent Middle School students thank you for your nice cranes for Beslan children.
All of cranes have been sent to Beslan."

"Dear Vlad and Dmitry thank you for your nice cranes for Beslan children.
All of cranes have been sent to Beslan."

"Dear FRIENDS, sorry but you have not written your names, thank you for your nice cranes for Beslan children.
All of cranes have been sent to Beslan."

Everyone who wishes to help the victims by sending toys, books, clothes or other goods can use the following address:
Beslan, North Ossetia - Alania, 363020, Russia
followed by the name and address of the person you would like to help from the list.
If you want to send your package to several people from the list, you can send it to Elena Kasumova from the Teachers' Committee:
General Pliev st., 4/26, Beslan, North Ossetia - Alania, 363020, Russia
Phone #: +7 (867 37) 3-42-96
and she will organize the distribution of your items to the people you choose. Each item or group of items must be signed to a particular recipient. You are kindly asked to send only new goods. Also, if the books are not in Russian, then it is better to send comic books or picture-books.