Kids To Sleep In Heavenly Peace Thanks To Hospital Volunteers

TARPON SPRINGS, FL -- A new Tarpon Springs nonprofit organization that supplies beds to kids in need is off to a good start with help from Florida Hospital North Pinellas.

The Pinellas County chapter of the national nonprofit Sleep in Heavenly Peace launched four months ago and has already built and delivered more than 65 beds to children in the community who have no beds.

The hospital at 4706 Alternate U.S. 19 in Palm Harbor partnered with the nonprofit, promising to build more than a dozen handcrafted beds.

The hospital volunteers delivered on that promise, presenting Pinellas chapter President Jim Baker with the beds on Dec. 1.

So far this year, chapters of Sleep in Heavenly Peace throughout the country have provided more than 6,000 beds for children who have nowhere to sleep.

To contact the Pinellas chapter, click here.

Images via Florida Hospital Pinellas

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