Dorna Foundation · United States

Art and culture for a more connected world.

Dorna (درنا) is the Persian word for crane. Cranes return every spring, carrying an old promise that what we lost will come back. From them grew the tradition of folding paper, a thousand paper cranes for a single wish. The wish was never in the last crane but in the thousand. That is our philosophy! Every small thing we make, a story translated, a poem read aloud, a book placed in a child's hands, drifts outward like a dandelion seed on a single breath, lands somewhere unseen, takes root, and grows. Enough of them, and the world becomes a little kinder.