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The Fresh Air Fund Seeks Volunteer Host Families
I got an email asking me to consider hosting a child this
summer through the Fresh Air Fund, a century-old nonprofit that sends kids from
low-income families in the inner city to live with families in rural areas for
a few weeks each summer. Considering that I live in a windowless basement
apartment in the city, I
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Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI wish we lived in a state where we could be a host family for this program
This sounds amazing and we’d love to host a child for a week or few.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI was a Fresh Air Fund kid. I grew up in the South Bronx in the late 1970s and got to run barefoot on grass for the first time thanks to this program. I will absolutely be applying to be a host, to pass on that gift to another child.
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