This is a first for Nub News!

A recent article about the Branden's Trail Project at Bridport Primary School has been translated into Japanese and distributed amongst organisations and individuals throughout the country.

This follows the news announced by Nub - or Yoten in Japanese - that the project has been selected by Green Legacy Hiroshima (GLH) to receive seeds from trees that were thought to have been destroyed in the nuclear bombing in 1945.

As well as this, Bridport Primary School's children's council is now featuring on an international website promoted by the United Nations- its Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) - with Branden's Trail joining a partnership of projects in 35 other countries around the world.

This includes Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Iran, Korea, Russia, Palestine, the US and Japan. Membership of this international partnership has been made possible through the donation of the seeds.

On its website, it states:

'GLH has a new partner, 'Branden's Trail', a voluntary project that seeks to ensure the legacy of Branden, who died of cancer when he is [sic] five-years-old.

The School Council of Children were moved by the story of the dead trees that came to life, and tremendously excited when the learned about the seeds - even more so when they saw photos of what the seeds would become.

They have decided to plant and nurture the Hiroshima survivor trees especially when they also learned that the story of Branden was similar to that of Sadako from Hiroshima, who also died of leukaemia at a young age by the effects of radiation.'

Sadako was two-years-old when the force of the bomb blew her out of her bedroom window. Somehow, she survived, only to die 10 years later from cancer caused by radiation.

Before she died, she made 1,000 paper cranes saying, 'I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world'. Now, each year, children from around the world send thousands of origami cranes to Hiroshima in memory of Sadako.

In memory of Branden, who was a pupil at Bridport Primary School, his trail is being resurrected and transformed into a calm and friendly refuge for any child who, for whatever reason, needs support and reassurance, a partnership project involving the school Bridport Town Council, Bridport Young Persons' Action Trust (BYPAT) charity, Bridport Arts Centre and Bridport Gardening Club, with support received from across the community.

Town surveyor, Daryl Chambers, has pledged to care for and nurture the trees.

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