Fresh Air Fund Seeking Counselors for Summer '09

From The Fresh Air Fund: The Fresh Air Fund is now accepting applications for counselors for this coming summer of '09. We hire staff members with a wide range of experience in some pretty amazing fields. We are looking for college-aged men and women who love to work with children. Some of the more interesting programs and classes that we offer at our camps include environmental science, culinary arts, fashion design, orienteering, leadership, video editing, digital and dark room photography, ropes course, nutrition and agriculture.

You can get complete details about the camp, the jobs available and how to apply here.

The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Nearly 10,000 New York City children enjoy free Fresh Air Fund programs annually. In 2008, close to 5,000 children visited volunteer host families in suburbs and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada. 3,000 children also attended five Fresh Air camps on a 2,300-acre site in Fishkill, New York. The Fund’s year-round camping program serves an additional 2,000 young people each year.