Sudbury Families, Can You Host a Fresh Air Child in Your Home?

SUDBURY, MA—This Father's Day, the Fresh Air Fund is asking families to consider sharing the joys of the summer with a New York City child.

The Fresh Air Fund is looking for MetroWest area homes where a child can spend one to two weeks to experience such things as playing catch barefoot in the grass, roasting s'mores by the campfire, or going swimming in a lake. The signup deadline is July 1 to host a Fresh Air Child this August.

"What it really equates to is another setting at your dinner table and giving a child a an experience they might not otherwise have. When our Fresh Air child Kenneth comes to visit all we have to do is have a welcoming home for a week or two,” said host father Chris in an announcement.

Each summer, nearly 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small town communities along the East Coast from North Carolina to Maine and Ontario, Canada.

The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, nonprofit agency, has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. To learn more about hosting a Fresh Air child this summer, ontact Stenie Gullans at 508-212-6358 or visit The Fresh Air Fund online.

Photo Credit: Kelley Anne Photography/Fresh Air Fund