In 2009, The Fresh Air Fund‘s Volunteer Host Family program, called Friendly Town, gave close to 5,000 New York City boys and girls, ages six to 18, free summer experiences in the country and the suburbs. Volunteer host families shared their friendship and homes up to two weeks or more in 13 Northeastern states from Virginia to Maine and Canada.
The Fresh Air Fund relies on donations to provide memorable summers to NYC children.
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One out of four school children in the U.S. has vision problems, and 86% do not get their vision checked before age 12.
Many Fresh Air children do not have access to affordable vision care. Glasses break, are too expensive to replace, or are never prescribed in the first place. And often as a result, children’s performance in academics, sports and activities suffers. For the fifth summer in a row, OneSight offered to bring their traveling optical clinic to all five Fresh Air Fund camp. Together with OneSight’s Vision Vans – and a team of local doctors and volunteers, OneSight provides … Read More »
Terry Grahl an interior decorator whose mission is to give hope to ‘at risk’ women and children. Transforming the shelters that save people’s lives into beautiful sanctuaries that heal their spirit.
“For my mother, making a home where her children felt safe and their spirits could soar was just as important as keeping them fed and clothed. Improving and decorating our modest home expressed love for her family. Through her example, I learned to envision possibilities, creatively shape environments, and the value of hard work involved in transformations,” says Terry. “From that seed came a love for decorating which began … Read More »
The trip ended with a sunset. One of the most beautiful fiery orange/red sunsets I have ever seen.
Sitting in the airplane high above the clouds, to my left the sunset and to my right the moon. What a way to end this incredible journey that started only three days ago.
My husband, mother and I met up with 16 other church friends to travel to Matamoros Mexico, and specifically Casa Bugambilia which is maintained by Juntos Servimos. I thought I had witnessed poverty in parts of our country but that was nothing compared to what we saw in Matamoros. Our goal … Read More »
The president elect has called for a National Day of Service on January the 19th. On that day he will be making a call to all Americans to seek out longer term projects in their communities.
GiveJust1 (http://www.givejust1.org), a nonprofit, non-partisan organization, calls upon all Americans to give one day of service to their community during the first 100 days of the Obama Administration (January 20 – April 30, 2009). GiveJust1 seeks to facilitate the connection between volunteers and service opportunities across the nation, and make a significant impact over a three month period in every community, great and small. The … Read More »
