ACHS Students Volunteer to Build Beds for Children in Need
ACHS Students Volunteer to Build Beds for Children in Need
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Twice this year, high school students volunteered at Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) to build beds for children in need. In the fall of 2024, students built 35 wooden beds. In the spring of 2025, another group volunteered and built 25 twin-sized bunk beds during five hours of work.
Volunteers – under the guidance of SHP Chapter team members – build bunks in an assembly line setup. There are stations for sawing, sanding, drilling, assembling, staining, and branding the wood. What started as a pile of raw lumber from the hardware store becomes ready-to-deliver bunks for kids in need.
