A Breath of Fresh Air: 31 NYC Children Arrive in Holmdel for Summer Program

Eager to see the Jersey Shore, Fresh Air Fund New York City children hustled off the bus Friday at Holmdel Park to see their host families.

Volunteer host families share their summers for up to two weeks with Fresh Air children, ages six to 18. Some children are leaving home for the first time, while others are returning to visit the same host families for consecutive summers. 

Host families this year include families from Little Silver, Fair Haven, Sea Girt, Morganville, Rumson, Middletown, Lincroft, Freehold, Red Bank, Holmdel, Monmouth Beach, Matawan, Kendall Park, Tinton Falls, Colts Neck, Millstone Township, Oakhurst, Ocean, Marlboro, Brielle, Hazlet, and Wall Township.

The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Each summer, over 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.