Kids & Family
Darien Family Wins Fresh Air Fund Photo Award
The Shepard family won the group's 2019 annual photo contest.
The Fresh Air Fund: Darien residents, the Shepards, participated in The Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Towns Program this past summer and were among the winners of the 2019 Photo Contest! All winners were selected from the hundreds of photos submitted by volunteer host families along the East Coast and Southern Canada. The photos capture the fun-filled experiences our volunteer host families shared with Fresh Air children this past summer. Categories include “Backyard Fun,” “Friendship,” “New Experiences,” “Exploring Nature,” “Swimming,” “The Beach” and “Ice Cream.”
The photo was selected as a winner in the “Summer Brother” category, and features Fresh Air child, CJ, age 10, holding a fish he caught with his host brothers, Conor and Eric, in the Southwest Coast area.
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. To learn more about hosting a Fresh Air child next summer, please contact Yvette Eenkema van Dijk at 203-253-9640 or visit The Fresh Air Fund at www.FreshAir.org.
