Hug It Forward is a grass-roots organization that facilitates education and awareness by empowering communities in Latin America to build “bottle schools”.
Bottle schools are schools built using “eco-bricks”: plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash. Entire communities come together to build a more sustainable educational infrastructure for their future.
Hug It Forward’s goal is to share the bottle school technology so that communities all over the world can build their own bottle school.
Bottle schools are schools built using plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash. Bottle schools are built using tried and tested post and beam construction. The foundations, columns and beams are made from concrete reinforced with rebar. The difference with traditional construction is that instead of cinder-blocks, the walls are made using “eco-bricks”. Bottle schools are much cheaper to build than traditional schools, they clean up the environment, teach lessons about environmental sustainability, and involve the entire community in their construction, resulting in a sense of pride and ownership.
16 hours ago
Today is Earth Day! 🌏
The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement.
Since October 2009, Hug It Forward has been empowering communities to build bottle schools. Today, on Earth Day, we celebrate what we have been able to accomplish with the communities. We thank everyone involved, we love you. Happy Earth Day! 🌏 ... See MoreSee Less
2 days ago
Friends! Please help us wish our 38th bottle school a very happy 4th birthday!! This community with a population of approximately 900 people finished their first bottle school on this day in 2014. To read more about this school and community please visit our website at: https://hugitforward.org/schools/chulin
Happy Birthday! 🎊🎉🎊 ... See MoreSee Less