Fresh Air Children Arrive In Natick

NATICK, MA—The Metro West of Boston Committee is welcomes a small group of New York City children as they arrive in Natick on Aug. 1.

Volunteer host families share their summers for one week or more with Fresh Air children, ages seven to 18.

A "Fresh Air summer" for these city kids means running barefoot in the backyard, riding bikes down country roads, learning to swim, catching fireflies, building sandcastles on the beach, making new friends and having a lot of fun, according to the announcement. Some children are leaving home for the first time, while others are returning to visit the same host families for consecutive summers.

The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Each summer, thousands of children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small town communities along the East Coast and Southern Canada through The Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Towns Program.

Information via Fresh Air Fund

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