Times-Tribune Staff Report
Success Corps, a branch of Americorps that works with local schools’ family resources centers, is collecting twin-size bed sheets for a state-wide fundraiser.
The second annual Build-A-Bed fundraiser is looking for money to purchase (and volunteers to assemble) 500 twin-sized beds for low-income children state-wide.
“In 2009, Success Corps members began asking Family Resource Centers and Youth Service Coordinators about community needs,” said Carla Kersey, Success Corps volunteer with Corbin Schools. “One of the overwhelming responses we heard was a need for beds. The more we investigated, the more stories we heard of children sleeping six to a mattress with parents and grandparents, children sleeping on uninsulated floors, in barns, or on couches. So to give these kids a better night’s sleep, we began building and delivering beds.”
The beds will be assembled by a group of volunteers in Frankfort this May.
Locally, Kersey is sponsoring a sheet drive, seeking twin-sized children’s bedding to be given with the beds.
Donations of new or lightly used clean sheets can be dropped off at Corbin Primary School’s Family Resource Center. The center is also accepting donations of pillows, blankets, pajamas, stuffed animals, toothbrushes and toothpaste, night lights, books, and other items that can be used by a child around bedtime.
Donations are tax-deductible and receipts will be mailed for donations.
“Your contribution of sheets may help a child sleep better tonight, and live better this year,” Kersey said. “Please consider helping a child.”
For more information, call Carla Kersey at Corbin Primary School Family Resource Center at 606-526-6802. For more information on Build-A-Bed, e-mail build.a.bed@gmail.com or call 502-564-4986.
