A fundraising campaign aimed at supporting pediatric cancer research is spreading in Kama, Fukuoka Prefecture, in the hopes that no more children will lose their lives to cancer.
A citizens¡¯ group in the city, which engages in wood education activities, is soliciting donations at woodcraft events to send to a research team of experts on childhood cancer.
What drove Yasunobu Tsuruta, the 73-year-old head of the group, to launch the campaign was his encounter more than a decade ago with a boy who loved crafts.
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