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A college student, Yu Tzu-wei, began a campaign in Taipei in October 2006 to "hug everyone in Taiwan".[8]
in 2006, a Free Hugs Campaign began in Tel Aviv, Israel.[9]
In late October 2006 several Free Hugs Campaigns were organized in a number of cities in Italy.[10]
On October 27, 2006 students Steve Loftus, Mark Wonnacott and Jeff Jones from Illinois-based McKendree universidade were featured in news media, including MLB.com, for giving free hugs before game five of the World Series in front of Busch Stadium.[11]
On November 6, 2006 a group of eleven people led por a twenty-four ano old man named...
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posted by bramcurtis
How it all started:

I'd been living in Londres when my world turned upside down and I'd had to come home. por the time my plane landed back in Sydney, all I had left was a carry on bag full of clothes and a world of troubles. No one to welcome me back, no place to call home. I was a tourist in my hometown.

Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting their waiting friends and family, with open arms and smiling faces, hugging and laughing together, I wanted someone out there to be waiting for me. To be happy to see me. To smile at me. To hug me.

So I got some cardboard...
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posted by bramcurtis
The Free Hugs campaign in its present form was started por Juan Mann on June 30, 2004, when he commenced giving out hugs in the Pitt St Mall in central Sydney. In the months prior to this Mann had been feeling depressed and lonely as a result of numerous personal difficulties. However, a aleatório hug from a stranger made an enormous difference, with Mann stating that "...I went out to a party one night and a completely aleatório person came up to me and gave me a hug. I felt like a king! It was greatest thing that ever happened." [2]

Mann carried the now iconic "FREE HUGS" sign from the outset. However...
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posted by bramcurtis
2009's Free Hug dia will take place Internationally at 00:01 on Friday February 13 until 00:00 (midnight) on Saturday February 14, at each country's respective times.

The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. The campaign in its present form was started in 2004 por an Australian man known only por the pseudonym "Juan Mann".

The campaign became famous internationally in 2006 as the result of a música video on YouTube por the Australian band Sick Puppies. The hugs are meant to be aleatório acts of kindness - purportedly selfless acts performed por a person for the sole reason of making others feel better.

So get out there and get hugging!
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The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places.[1] The campaign in its present form was started in 2004 por an Australian man known only por the pseudonym "Juan Mann" [2] . The campaign became famous internationally in 2006 as the result of a música video on YouTube por the Australian band Sick Puppies, which is one of the most popular on the site, having been viewed over 50,000,000 times. The hugs are meant to be aleatório acts of kindness - selfless acts performed just to make others feel better. International Free Hugs dia is celebrated on the first Saturday of July.