Hugs Sends Teddies Onboard the USS WASP

• Monday, November 30, 2009

The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS WASP anchored off Ocho Rios, Jamaica in November.  The sailors and Marines are set to deliver much needed medical supplies to the St. Ann's Bay Hopsital as well as some of the 250 teddy bears on board.

This stop is one of several the ship will be making in the Caribbean region as part of a three month deployment  under the Theater Security Cooperation and Continuing Promise.

Hugs Helps Eagle Scout Give to Foster Children

• Monday, November 30, 2009

Eddie Lyon, Life Scout of Boy Scout troop 183 in Little Neck, NY, remembers what it was like to be a foster child shuffling from one family to another until you really find a "home".

Eddie has made it his Eagle Scout project through Lutheran Social Services of NY to bring to over 100 children in the foster care system of greater New York a bag of items that each child can keep as his/her very own.  Each bag includes a big, soft huggable teddy bear from Hugs Across America as well as some personal items such a toothbrush, soap, towel and a story book.

We are delighted to help Eddie with his project and are so very proud that he has chosen to help others in need.

Teddies for Georgia Flood Victims

• Friday, September 25, 2009

(Carrollton, GA) -- The tragic news of a toddler pulled from the arms of his father and lost in the raging Snake Creek can not be dimmed even by our prayers and concern. But to the people of Carrollton and counties to the North, the hugs of teddies and the sure knowledge that others care is, indeed, welcome. Captain Chris Dobbs of the Carrollton Police Dept. said that lots of families lost everything in the floods and that 400 teddies or so would surely help those frightened children.Hug's Woodmen Chapter of Conyers, Georgia, led by Ted Church and his daughter Jane Pagliaro, immediately responded to our call. The teddies will be there Saturday morning, in time to comfort the families as they try to reclaim their lives.

“It’s really a very nice looking creek in our county, but those flood waters made it a raging, ravaging river that was just unbelievable,“ said Sheriff Terry Langley of Carroll County, Georgia. Snake Creek is usually two feed high but grew to 20 feet, ripping apart the family’s mobile home and washing other homes down stream.

Coast Guard Families Enjoy Hugs

• Saturday, August 29, 2009

On a very special Family Day, the Coast Guard at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, NY passed out 70 teddies to their very appreciative youngsters.  Some of the children awaited their parents deployment, others were there as guests, having lost their father's in Iraq.  In spite of the difficult reasons for their presence, the kids thoroughly enjoyed the day.  Great food, good music and lots of teddies to hug helped make the day a success.