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| Children of elementary schools in Tokyo,
send Christmas cards to New York Chileren. |
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MERRY CHRISTMAS,
NEW YORK!
Eisyu Kanemoto
8 years old |
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| Children of the schools around "Ground
Zero", answer "Arigato!" to their Japanese
friends. |
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THANK YOU, JAPAN!
Scarlett McCalman
9 years old |
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| Children of the schools displaced after
September 11th, learn original origami models. |
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MY CITY
Jonathan Ben-Menachem
9 years old |
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| Children of the schools around "Ground
Zero" draw MY DREAM CITY. |
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MY DREAM CITY
Ashlie Triolo-Dekkers
9 years old |
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Thanks to the kind participation
of
MEDIA FACTORY
NORTHWEST
AIRLINES |
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the magnificent coordination of
FREE
ARTS
for
abused children of New York City |
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and the generosity of
Sandra Agreda & Giovanni
Zapata |
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| our mission in New York City has been accomplished! |
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| Children of the Public
Schools 234 and 89 in
Lower Manhattan, located meters away from the
World Trade Center and displaced by its collapse,
answered the Christmas cards and Happy New Year messages
from Japanese children, imagined The
36 Views Of Mount Fuji and learnt original
origami models. |
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| In Harlem, with the volunteers of Creative
Arts Workshops for Kids, in Midtown or in Brooklyn,
more than 1,000 children in ten schools of New York received
crayons, smiles and a message of friendship and solidarity
from Japan. |
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| The Twin Towers are standing! |
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| It was a beautiful blue morning... all of
a sudden, the world shook! |
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| Thousands of lives were lost, ethnic hatred
and a new war were triggered, the economy of the whole
world was affected, thousands of children in the USA or
in Afghanistan lost their beloved ones, hundreds of children
in five schools around "Ground
Zero" were displaced in other parts of Manhattan... |
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The children of New York City were asked
to draw MY CITY or WHATEVERYOUWANT.
And although almost half a year had passed since the day
that changed the world, nevertheless they drew the
Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center obsessively.
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| Interestingly, the children of the schools
that were located by the World Trade
Center didn't draw planes crashing against the
buildings, but the two towers reigning in the blue sky. |
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| When asked, why he would draw the buildings
that don't exist anymore, the answer of a child was simple
and determined: |
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| "The
Twin Towers are standing!" |
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