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7/23/2009 - 2008 Annual Report Released Read about i.HUG's challenges and our promising successes from the past year by downloading our Annual Report. Your efforts make all the difference, and the proof is on the ground, with the growth and development of the children and the community of Kabalagala, Uganda. Read More 04/15/2009 -SECOND ANNUAL BENEFIT GALA NEW YORK, Apr 15, 2009 – The International Help Uganda Grow (i.HUG) Foundation will hold its second annual Benefit Gala to raise funds for the Kabalagala Community Academy, the primary school established in Uganda to give children of poverty the opportunity to learn. Click here to read more 02/02/2009 - Virginia Gildersleeve International Foundation A grant from the Virginia Gildersleeve International Foundation has enabled our primary school to establish a school clinic where children can get the healthcare services they so desperately need. Click here to read more 09/12/2008 - TEAM i.HUG NYC Marathon 2008 Team i.HUG, i.HUG's first fundraising team with two goals: 1] To train for, run and finish their first ever NYC Marathon on Sunday November 2, 2008. 2] To ask everyone they know, to please support their soon-to-be personal triumphs by donating to i.HUG in their honor. Click here to read more about Team i.HUG! 4/17/2008 - Major Announcement We are thrilled to announce that the 2007 Annual Report is here! Read about the milestones made during the first year of the Kabalagala Community Academy - our nonprofit primary school to help underprivileged children in the slum of Kabalagala in Uganda - and the second full year of our organization as a whole. Read More 4/2/2008 - i.HUG's FIRST BENEFIT GALA RAISES HOPE ... AND $25,000 The I Help Uganda Grow (i.HUG) Foundation recently hosted its first Benefit Gala, raising more than $25,000 to help disadvantaged and orphaned children in Kabalagala, Uganda. Kabalagala is a slum community near Kampala that has been stricken with HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty. Read more about this incredible event. 11/1/2007 - UK Children's Charity Fegans Collaborates to Teach Counseling Skills to KCA Staff i.HUG Board Member Mary Dicker, a long-time employee of UK-based charity Fegans Child and Family Care, collaborated with both organizations to offer child training and other skills to the staff at the Kabalagala Community Academy. To read about this workshop, click here to access an excerpt from Fegans "Focus" newsletter. 9/1/2007 - The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) Publishes Essay on i.HUG's Beginnings i.HUG Founder Joanna Breitstein writes about the process of change, and how i.HUG came to be. Read More 2/5/2007 - ORDINARY PEOPLE DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS ORDINARY PEOPLE DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS WITH OPENING OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN UGANDA i.HUG Foundation Call-to-Action Results in Funds to Help Educate Poverty Stricken Children NEW YORK CITY, February 5, 2007 - Thanks to the dedication of local community leaders and the i.HUG (I Help Uganda Grow) Foundation, Kabalagala, Uganda today celebrated the opening of its primary school, the Kabalagala Community Academy. Click here to read more About i.HUG Established in January 2006, The International HUG Foundation (i.HUG) is a 501c3 nonprofit group whose mission is to reach out to disadvantaged and orphaned children in Uganda by providing them with an education, access to healthcare and an environment that fosters their physical, social and emotional development. In order to ensure the sustainability of the mission, i.HUG strives to use local resources and to leverage its successes to benefit the entire community. For more information, visit www.iHUGfoundation.org.

7/23/2009 - 2008 Annual Report Released

Read about i.HUG's challenges and our promising successes from the past year by downloading our Annual Report. Your efforts make all the difference, and the proof is on the ground, with the growth and development of the children and the community of Kabalagala, Uganda. Read More

04/15/2009 -SECOND ANNUAL BENEFIT GALA

NEW YORK, Apr 15, 2009 – The International Help Uganda Grow (i.HUG) Foundation will hold its second annual Benefit Gala to raise funds for the Kabalagala Community Academy, the primary school established in Uganda to give children of poverty the opportunity to learn.

Click here to read more

02/02/2009 - Virginia Gildersleeve International Foundation

A grant from the Virginia Gildersleeve International Foundation has enabled our primary school to establish a school clinic
where children can get the healthcare services they so desperately need.

Click here to read more

09/12/2008 - TEAM i.HUG NYC Marathon 2008

Team i.HUG, i.HUG's first fundraising team with two goals:

1] To train for, run and finish their first ever NYC Marathon on Sunday November 2, 2008.

2] To ask everyone they know, to please support their soon-to-be personal triumphs by donating to i.HUG in their honor.
Click here to read more about Team i.HUG!

4/17/2008 - Major Announcement

We are thrilled to announce that the 2007 Annual Report is here! Read about the milestones made during the first year of the Kabalagala Community Academy - our nonprofit primary school to help underprivileged children in the slum of Kabalagala in Uganda - and the second full year of our organization as a whole. Read More

4/2/2008 - i.HUG's FIRST BENEFIT GALA RAISES HOPE ... AND $25,000

The I Help Uganda Grow (i.HUG) Foundation recently hosted its first Benefit Gala, raising more than $25,000 to help disadvantaged and orphaned children in Kabalagala, Uganda. Kabalagala is a slum community near Kampala that has been stricken with HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty. Read more about this incredible event.

11/1/2007 - UK Children's Charity Fegans Collaborates to Teach Counseling Skills to KCA Staff

i.HUG Board Member Mary Dicker, a long-time employee of UK-based charity Fegans Child and Family Care, collaborated with both organizations to offer child training and other skills to the staff at the Kabalagala Community Academy. To read about this workshop, click here to access an excerpt from Fegans "Focus" newsletter.

9/1/2007 - The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) Publishes Essay on i.HUG's Beginnings

i.HUG Founder Joanna Breitstein writes about the process of change, and how i.HUG came to be. Read More

2/5/2007 - ORDINARY PEOPLE DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS

ORDINARY PEOPLE DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS WITH OPENING OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN UGANDA
i.HUG Foundation Call-to-Action Results in Funds to Help Educate Poverty Stricken Children

NEW YORK CITY, February 5, 2007 - Thanks to the dedication of local community leaders and the i.HUG (I Help Uganda Grow) Foundation, Kabalagala, Uganda today celebrated the opening of its primary school, the Kabalagala Community Academy.

Click here to read more

About i.HUG

Established in January 2006, The International HUG Foundation (i.HUG) is a 501c3 nonprofit group whose mission is to reach out to disadvantaged and orphaned children in Uganda by providing them with an education, access to healthcare and an environment that fosters their physical, social and emotional development. In order to ensure the sustainability of the mission, i.HUG strives to use local resources and to leverage its successes to benefit the entire community. For more information, visit www.iHUGfoundation.org.