Our John Brownlee, over at Boing Boing Gadgets, tells the mothership about a project close to his heart:
There’s an organization called the Fresh Air Fund, which has been around since 1877.Their charter is basically to arrange to send low-income New York City kids out of the city for the summer to get a breath of fresh air and experience the country: free summer vacations for kids who might never have left the city in their lives.
They need to place 200 kids with host families by the end of July or these kids can’t have summer vacations.
There’s a website detailing their organization and what they need from host families here: freshair.smnr.us.
Image: “Fresh Air campers visit the model farm, one of the highlights of Sharpe Reservation in Fishkill, NY where The Fresh Air Fund has five camps.”