NEW YORK CITY — The Fresh Air Fund is seeking local families to host children from New York City for a week or two in August.

Each summer, close to 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small-town communities along the East Coast. Fresh Air children are given the opportunity to experience a world outside of New York City full of meadows to run in, streams to fish in and lakes to swim in.

Applications should be submitted by July 1 to host a child in August.

The Fresh Air Fund, an independent nonprofit, has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877.

FMI: 207-926-3557, www.freshair.org.