Published in Reforming Humanity

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The Free Hugs Company is a social movement that involve people who offer free hugs for strangers at public spaces. The "Free Hugs" was idealized in 2001 by an Australian called "Juan Mann" who had an objective to break the agitated routine of day-to-day with one unusual and uncommon act: to give hugs. Affording one way of permutation: sadness to happiness. Against the difficulties of getting into the university, like the value of the enrollment in college entrance, the distance of the family, and the tension and all the preparations that predates the arrival at the tests place, Free Hugs was developed by one group of academics of the course of medicine in UNESC during the college admission exam in 2015. This movement had the objective to establish a humanized host action, offering free hugs at the place of examination, demonstrating to the students who were going to do the test of college admission, recognizing their potential and efforts in that moment, and helping them to assuage anxiety.