Eva Longoria Baston has shared a photo of herself cuddling her gorgeous son, Santi – and there’s an important reason why.
The actress is using her platform to shine a light on all the kids in detention centres who are missing out on hugs from their loved ones.
“Currently, immigrant detainees, including young children, are being deprived of the most basic human needs: running water, clean clothes, adequate food, healthy sleep and beds,” Eva writes on social media. “These young ones are not allowed to receive hugs or any physical contact from caretakers – or even one another. This has the potential to create severe trauma.”
To help spread the message, she’s asking us all to share photos of ourselves hugging someone we love. “Try to express what this hug means to you,” she writes, “and how those currently suffering in detention are being denied a hug just like this one.”
It’s called the #OneVidaAtATime Hug Challenge and the aim is to not only remind us all about the situation that so many kids in detention are facing right now, but also to help raise funds for Immigrant Families Together,an organisation working to support asylum seekers and reunite families.
Since Eva posted her hug challenge, it looks like plenty of people have been jumping on board to help out:
Nehal is an award-winning news presenter and the founder of positive celebrity news site CelebrityKind. (She's also a mummy-of-3, chocoholic and Opraholic!)
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