THE pupils at Kloof High School banded together to fold 5 000 origami cranes for the Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust’s mobile which will be displayed at the KZNSA gallery next month.
The crane mobile will symbolise the amount of HIV tests the HACT performed last year (7964), with each crane depicting a positive or negative result with a different colour.
“My grandmother works at the HACT and asked my sister and I if we would be interested in folding a few cranes. We then asked our friends to get involved and soon the news had spread around the school and peers, that I didn’t even know, would hand me their folded origami cranes in the corridors. It was quite exciting,” said Hayley Moffett, one of the pupils who spearheaded the project.
The Interact Club at Kloof High School and schoolteacher Di Headley helped make the project a success.
“I am just so proud of the pupils that took part. I have to mention that this was not a school-initiated project and they took it upon themselves to tackle this challenge. AIDS is such a real issue in our society and that they, the pupils, spent their free time to help create awareness for such a worthy cause – it just goes to show the calibre of pupil that we have at this school,” said Dawn Lefort, principal of Kloof High School.
