Hugging for a philantrophic cause

A tight hug to show your love and friendship may be an outward expression of a non verbal communication of a good relationship.Many students fraternity in Ottawa  came together to depict this for a noble cause.Hugging friends and close family members assures them of our unconditional love and support.And this may be very common for many of us in the course of our daily lives.Words can prove insufficient at times but a physical demonstration in the form of a hug reassures the fact to the concerned individual.In some other cases hugging also refers to being united.
More than 10,000 Ottawa students got together from 10 Ottawa area schools to group hug each other.The group hug was organised as a fund raiser for Cancer care in the capital city.It spanned from Laurier Street to the Pretoria Bridge along the Rideau Canal.All thestudents showed equal interest and shared the cause of the fund raiser and got together to hug showing their unified stand on the issue.A student from St Mathews High School one of the schools participating in the event remarked that it was amazing to see so many  persons doing this for a philantrophic purpose.And yes their good intentions did pay off.he group was able to raise more than $110,000 for cancer care prior to the day's hug.When the students of all the 10 local schools got together to demonstrate the bear hug  to set the world record it looked as if  o ttawa became the bear hug capital of the world.
Other participating schools were St. Peter High School, Mother Theresa High School, Notre Dame High School, Lester B. Pearson High School, St. Joseph High School, St. Pius X High School, Sacret Heart High School, Immaculata High School and St. Matthew High School, where the 2004's Bear Hug set a world record before being overtaken by New Mexico.
The hug took place for just 10 seconds during the event but this 10 second programme had churned a year long efforts and planning from the organisers of the event.Simon Tomlinson a grade 8 student had been going door to door to collect funds for the cancer care research and was successful in collecting over 1000 $.This has been the biggest collection till date for him and he plans to continue his god work further.The students felt that they are coming together to put their names  on the map  for doing great things.In this way the students are trying their best  to raise money to treat and eradicate the deadly cancer out of this world.In the process they gain tremendous satisfaction for being instrumental for a  noble cause.
The proceeds of the fund raising efforts would go to the  Cancer research and patient care at CHEO, the Ottawa Hospital and the Ottawa Senators Foundation.

 Using the bear hug project as the launching point for such a massive fundraising effort is “a neat way” of collecting money, continues Grade 8 student Andrew Van der Hoeven, St. Matt’s second-biggest fundraiser, calling the potential record grab a big motivator.

This was also done to shatter a previous record of the largest group  (bear hug) .The first Bear Hug event was held in 2004 and had more than 5,100 students hug in the schoolyard .The previous world record fot the largest group hug involved 6,623 participants who gathered in Chamizal Park in Juárez, Mexico on 25 September 2005.

The Largest group hug was set by the 10000 students from 10 local schools in Ottawa at Ottawa,Canada on April 25,2011.