Fresh Air Fund
Join your local Bucks County volunteer leaders on Saturday, July 11th at 8:30AM at Windmill Day Camp, located 36 North Chapman Road in Doylestown, for a 5k and Kids Fun Run to learn more about The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family Program. Volunteer hosts will share their experiences hosting New York City children and can answer any questions. Afterwards, the local volunteer leaders and host families invite you to join them at at 12:00PM at Nancy Ortiz’s home, located at 584 Red Wing Road in Perkasie for a picnic. Refreshments and snacks will be provided.
Fresh Air summers are filled with children running barefoot through the grass, gazing at star-filled skies or swimming for the first time. Each summer, nearly 4,000 inner-city children visit suburban, rural and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada through The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family Program. Fresh Air children are boys and girls, from six to 18 years old, who live in New York City. Children on first-time visits are six to 12 years old and stay for one or two weeks. Children who are reinvited by host families may continue with The Fresh Air Fund through age 18 and can enjoy extended trips. Over 65 percent of all children are reinvited to stay with their host families, year after year.
The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. For more information about hosting a Fresh Air child this summer, please contact Abby Simkus at 215-778-4144 or visit The Fresh Air Fund online at www.freshair.org.