ImaginePublicity Promotes “Fresh Air Fund”
Each year the Fresh Air Fund sponsors low income children from New York City for an experience that many would never have. Out to the country they go to host families who are able to show them a way of life they may otherwise never see. Please go to their website, see what it’s all about, and if you can donate your time or money, it will go a long way! Last year Fresh Air Fund sponsored 5,000 children! Remember your summer vacations? Doesn’t every kid deserve that kind of fun? In 1877, The Fresh Air Fund, an independent not-for-profit organization, was created with one simple mission — to allow children living in disadvantaged communities to get away from hot, noisy city streets and enjoy free summer experiences in the country. When The Fund began, New York City was overflowing with poor children living in crowded tenements. Many of these youngsters were hit by a tuberculosis epidemic, and “fresh air” was considered a cure for respiratory ailments. More than 130 years ago, the Reverend Willard Parsons, a …