Christmas morning will be a lot brighter for one Vermont family after a special gift from caring community members. “To donate their time and come do this for other families — it’s amazing.”
Volunteers who deliver the wooden beds said it’s often invisible to the broader community how many kids spend the night on couches, or with their parents, or in sleeping bags on the floor because their family simply can’t afford a proper bed.
“There is a need, and we’re only scratching the surface,” said Bob Brosseau, one of the founders of the Chittenden County-area chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace. “For me, it’s a purpose that turned into a passion.” Brosseau said the group now hopes to see another Vermont chapter launch or perhaps establish a satellite storage and delivery site — to cover more of the state. He pointed out none of the work would be possible without generous neighbors, including quilters, who donate bedding.
“When we tell the community we need some bedding, it’s like Christmas every day on my side porch — it just keeps coming and coming and coming,” Brosseau said, smiling.Sign up for our News Headlines newsletterBrosseau said he hopes as word spreads about the mission of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, it will help the organization live up to its motto — that “no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.”
The Chittenden County chapter had constructed roughly 1,500 beds by the end of 2022, Brosseau said, and has a large build day planned for early in 2023.
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