You are listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.

I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.

What if I told you that hundreds of thousands of kids are without beds right here in America, that they sleep on the floor,

and that there's one organization that's striving to change that. They're working very,

very hard. In fact, they're working overtime, triple time, quadruple time to ensure that

every single kid in America has a bed to sleep on.

Now, I've seen houses like this, and it's hard for us to imagine those of us who've grown up in

really blessed homes, it's hard for us to imagine what it's like.

That a child doesn't have a bed to sleep in? I mean, after all, this is America.

But sure enough, it happens more often than you think. According to one organization, the

organization that's ensuring that every kid in America has a bed.

They say right now 140,118 kids in the U.S. are waiting on you to help them sleep tonight.

This is really incredible. And again, it's something that we probably don't think about

very often because we get to lay our heads down every single night. And you've heard stories

from people back in the day, back in the 50s and 60s, and they were like, well, we crammed

together and we would sleep three people to a bed.

Yeah, but you had a bed. These are kids who have no bed whatsoever. They literally sleep on the floor.

And so what does an organization do to help fix that problem?

Well, first of all, it takes a tremendous amount of coordination.

It takes a tremendous amount of money.

It takes a massive amount of volunteerism.

And on their website, they say, of volunteerism.

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