Fresh Air Children Spend Time, Find Fun In Fairfield

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. – A total of 20 New York City children were reunited with their host families when they arrived in Fairfield early in July for a summer of fun.

New York City children began their Fresh Air summers on Saturday, July 11 by boarding the bus headed for the Southwest Coast area. The children will be visiting local host families for one or two weeks.
Photo Credit: *Maggie Hanson*

by Jason Bisnoff

07/24/2015 6:30 p.m.

This summer, nearly 4,000 children will enjoy a summer outside of the city with volunteer host families in 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. A large number of those children are staying with families in Fairfield County,

“I’m excited to go swimming and to watch the stars at night. I can’t see them at night in the city!” said 10-year-old Tyrone about his Fresh Air experiences. Many volunteer families find their hosting experience so rewarding that over 65 percent of all children are invited again to stay with the same 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, call Martha Mintzer at 203-216-4152 or visit www.freshair.org.

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