January 2020:

Our dear partner in North Carolina, Kathleen Burkinshaw who spear-headed the Green Legacy tree planting at the University of NC, Wilmington(UNCW) sends us this photo with the tree at her daughter's graduation in May 2019. The sapling is growing well and survived the 2018 Hurricane Florence, which did a lot of damage in Wilmington. Kathleen was also invited to speak at the United Nations Headquarter NYC in November about her mother, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor. Her book on her mother, The Last Cherry Blossom, is now as an recommended education resource by the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs and was recently reviewed in the Japan Times