This is not really for us in the UK – but I thought it was such a brilliant idea… A charity, founded in 1877, that organises for children from the deprived inner city areas of New York to go and stay with a family in the country for a one or two week holiday anywhere in the north eastern US. Maybe we do also have something similar here? If not, we should have.
Apparently more than 65% of all the children who go on a ‘fresh air’ holiday are re-invited to stay with their host family year after year.
Find out more here.
There was…and I hope there still is…an organisation that did this…in Sheffield.
I think it was called Fairthorn….based in Totley area..in a very leafy area of Sheffield/Derbyshire. Used to have a collection day each year…with a small rosette as the emblem….we are talking about the late 1950’s….my infant school days . (you do the maths…)
Sheffield until comparatively recently….was a heavily industrialised city. Taking children out of the poorer areas of Sheffield was good….
Janet
Hi Janet – that is good to hear. I am sure that there are other organisations all over the world who do it – and more power to them! What a great thing to do!