NYC Children Come to Natick as Part of Fresh Air Fund

New York City children, 21 of them, arrive in Natick on July 30, welcomed into families throughout the community as part of the Fresh Air Fund, and head to families in Waban, Natick, Wayland, Concord, Needham, Yarmouth, North Grafton, Peabody, West Newton, Lake George, Merrimac, Acton, and Newton Center.

The Metro West of Boston Committee welcomes the children, introducing them to their respective volunteer host families, who host these kids for up to two weeks each.

Fresh Air children are ages six to 18 and leave behind the city streets to run barefoot in the grass or see the stars at night. Some children are leaving home for the first time, while others are returning to visit the same host families for consecutive summers, said the announcement.

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, close to 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada through The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family Program.