Family Featured in Fresh Air Fund Calendar

Dunbarton residents, the Virta family, are featured in The Fresh Air Fund’s 2015 calendar! Pictures were selected from the hundreds of photos of our volunteer host families across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada and reflect the memorable experiences they shared with their New York City visitors this past summer.

For the past three summers, the Virta family has welcomed Leonard into their hearts and homes through The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family Program. Leonard, of Brooklyn, poses with his host siblings Vera, Luke and Sidney while enjoying some fresh air in New Hampshire.

The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Fresh Air children are boys and girls, from six to 18 years old, who live in New York City. Children on first-time visits are six to 12 years old and stay for one or two weeks. Children who are reinvited by host families may continue with The Fresh Air Fund through age 18 and can enjoy extended trips. Over 65 percent of all children are reinvited to stay with their host families, year after year.

For more information on hosting a Fresh Air child this upcoming summer, please contact Ellen Ward at 603-731-4721 or visit The Fresh Air Fund online at freshair.org.

Submitted text and courtesy photo.