Our Vision

We dream of a world where every child has the opportunity to get an education, and to create a better life for themselves and for their families.
We dream of a world without trash, where people don’t mindlessly throw things “away”.

Building bottle schools in developing countries provides a solution to these two enormous issues. Building bottle schools helps to raise awareness in developed countries about these issues, and about what can be achieved through the power of community and collaboration.


Our Mission

Hug It Forward is a grass-roots organization that facilitates education and awareness by empowering communities to build “bottle schools”.
Bottle schools are schools built using “eco-bricks”: plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash. Entire communities come together to make the dream of educational opportunity a reality, by building their own bottle school.

Hug It Forward also strives to raise awareness in developed countries about trash, consumption and the power of community. This mission is equally important to us as facilitating the construction of bottle schools in developing countries.