Tennessee Company Takes A Day Off To Build Beds For Children

A Tennessee-based company that is used to fixing structural foundations traded its usual set of tools for another to participate in a nationwide service effort to build beds. 

Team members from The Foundations Specialists in College Grove, Tennessee, were a part of Build Day for Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofit that provides handmade beds to children who don’t have beds of their own.  

Dylan Morris, the Marketing Director for TFS, said his team first heard about the effort in April when they attended a Support Works conference and heard from the founder of the charity.  

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According to numbers collected by Sleep in Heavenly Peace, roughly 2-3% of American children are without beds, which affects their sleep and their mental, physical and emotional health.  

“When you’re a child and you’re growing and developing and trying to go to school and learn, getting a good night’s sleep really makes all the difference,” Morris said.

Most of the TFS teams near Nashville hadn’t ever built a bed before but since they’re in the foundation repair business, Morris said strenuous work and manual labor comes effortless to them.  

“Our production crews were super excited to do something different and they jumped right in,” he said.  

In a matter of a couple of hours, Morris said his middle Tennessee crew built 20 beds. A little further north, near Louisville, the Kentucky branch of TFS also built 20 beds. Though Morris wasn’t sure specifically where the 40 beds TFS made will be donated, SHP prioritizes keeping the handmade beds in the communities where they were built.  

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Morris said building a bed is harder than he thought it would be, but what they were able to produce and what team gained made it worth it.  

“I think the biggest lesson we learned is, you know, how quickly things can happen when we come together as a team,” he said. 

“It was just great to have the community out, listening to music and laughing and just having a great time while doing something that is positive and different.”