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Sweet Sleep

Organization:
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
U.S. Address: Post Office Box 40486
Nashville, TN 37204-9998
Various, HT 00000

Region:Haiti, Caribbean
County/Parish:



Main/General Business Number: 615.730.7671 (phone) 615.750.2789 (fax)
Website: http://www.sweetsleep.org/getinvolved/haiti.html


Mission: What is Sweet Sleep?

Sweet Sleep is a faith-based nonprofit organization which exists to share God’s love by providing beds to the world’s orphaned and abandoned children.

According to UNICEF, there are more that 210 million orphans worldwide. Today, 5,760 more children will become orphans.

Orphaned and abandoned children around the world suffer from lack of sufficient or healthy places to sleep. These children often sleep on old, broken and soiled beds or have no beds at all – forcing them to sleep on paper-thin mats or cold, hard floors, making them susceptible to crawling, biting insects and disease. In these conditions, it is nearly impossible to get a good night’s sleep and the effects are staggering:

* 1 in 5 of all childhood deaths is caused from malaria. 90% of these children are in Africa alone.
* A sagging or misshapen mattress may add tension to a child’s joints because their bodies rest on the mattress for hours at a time. Even if a child sleeps well on a bad mattress, these injuries to their bodies only make them weaker.
* Old mattresses or scraps of foam are breeding grounds for bed bugs and allergens that contribute to startling increases in respiratory diseases, including asthma as well as rhinitis, eczema and bed bug bites.
* When children continuously do not get enough sleep it affects their health, makes them tired during the day, hinders their ability to do well at school and leaves them more prone to disease.

Sweet Sleep’s provision of mosquito nets to orphanages is literally life-changing to children who live in fear of death by malaria. With your help, we are able to get sweet orphaned and abandoned children around the world into healthy, comfortable new Sweet Sleep beds.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

How You Can Help?

Sweet Sleep’s desire to provide “a bed for every head” and your help is vital as, together, we work to provide a place to sleep for the nearly 300 million orphaned and abandoned children in the world.

It’s easy to help. Go. Give. Pray.

GO. Contact Sweet Sleep to discuss arranging a trip for your group, family, church or company.

GIVE. Can you provide for a pillow? What about a single bed? Maybe you could provide beds for a roomful of children. Better still, can you provide beds for an entire orphanage? Consider how you can help bring sweet sleep to orphaned and abandoned children around the world. Every donation is tax-deductible. Every donation matters to a child.

PRAY. Commit to pray for the children we seek to serve around the globe. When you visit our website you can sign up to receive Sweet Sleep prayer updates, which will enable you to pray specifically for current needs and children who need your prayers.

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Sweet Sleep Blog: http://sweetsleep.blogspot.com/

Info Source/Changes:

Created At: Thu Jan 20 04:00:10 +0000 2011
Updated At: Thu Jan 20 04:15:50 +0000 2011
Updated By: LTel


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