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the modern world's greatest challenge

The Teen Story: Bound by Limits or Born for Legacy?

Today’s youth are growing up in a complex world that often leaves them overwhelmed, unsure, and disconnected.

Whether they come from wealth or poverty, many young people feel powerless in the face of their challenges. Without the right tools, they begin to believe their pain is permanent, their story is a limitation, and their circumstances define who they are. Not because they’re weak, but because no one ever showed them how to turn struggle into strength.

If that pain is never transformed, those hurt children grow into the troubled adults behind the headlines we all wish we could change.

At the HUG Foundation, we believe their story is their superpower, but only if they learn how to use it.

Through transformational youth leadership events like the African Youth Leaders Summit, or Project Salemi in Sicily, we help teens turn their past into purpose. We show them how to shift from blame to action, from "someone should fix this" to "I can lead the change." They don’t just heal they build.

We guide them in designing sustainable projects and businesses that directly solve the problems they’ve lived through, empowering them to become not just survivors, but solution makers in their communities.

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CURRENT PROJECTS

SUPPORTING UNDERPRIVILEGED YOUTH FROM POLAND

MISSION

In partnership with the Diamond Soul Foundation in Poland, the HUG Foundation

supports week long retreats in Sicily for Polish children from deeply traumatic, often pathological family backgrounds. These young people carry heavy stories of abandonment, addiction, violence, and deep emotional wounds. But for one week, they step into a new story.

Through a blend of mindset coaching, emotional healing, leadership training, and somatic practices like yoga and breathwork, these retreats give them tools to take their power back.

Led by four time Guinness World Record holder Paweł Durakiewicz, and yogini Alexandra Trenkler, the experience is designed to help them see their trauma not as a life sentence, but as a launching point. We teach them how to shift from victimhood to ownership, from survival to vision, and how to begin shaping a future with purpose and possibility.

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THABITI African Youth Leaders Summit 2025

SUCCESS STORY

In partnership with Coach Ben Africa, the HUG Foundation proudly co-organized and sponsored the first-ever Thabiti African Youth Leaders Summit on April 7, 2025 , at the prestigious St. Andrew’s School in Turi, Kenya.

Inspired by the spirit of Tony Robbins’ Global Youth Leadership Summit, Thabiti brought together over 150 teens, some from orphanages and deep poverty, others from stability and privilege. Despite their different backgrounds, they shared something powerful: a desire to lead lives of meaning and impact.

At Thabiti, these young people were guided to face their stories—many marked by pain, abandonment, and adversity—not as something to hide, but as the very fuel for their leadership. They learned how to transform their trauma into purpose, their wounds into wisdom, and their past into a platform for change.

Rather than waiting for help or hoping for change, they left with the belief that

they are the answer.

And now, they are stepping back into their communities not just inspired—but equipped to lead with heart, vision, and unstoppable courage.

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ROSEMARY'S INSPIRING STORY

VSA Kenya

MISSION

VSA Kenya was created by Dennis Otieno in 2006 with the aim to help disadvantaged children and orphans who are living in poverty.

VSA aims to engage young people into sports, education, leadership development and more to transform our youth into responsible and pro-active adults whilst reducing the risk of juvenile delinquency, prevent HIV/AIDS, and promote health and well being.

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

Be the Turning Point in a Teens Story

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Through goods or monetary donations, YOU can help improve lives and plant a seed that will impact many generations to come.

All donations are transferred directly to the project you donated to and monitored to be spent on the project itself.

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VOLUNTEER

You can always give a HUG and help us in many ways without ever spending a dime:

Fundraising

Coaching

Event Planning

Chaperoning

Gift Packing

Collecting Goods, etc.

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PROMOTE

Consider sharing our upcoming projects with others, on you social media or in any other capacity to help us raise funds and spread the word to make a real impact.

Any Other Ideas? Please contact us and let us know in what capacity you would like to help.