SEMINOLE, Fla. — Students at Richard O. Jacobson Tech High School in Seminole are helping make sure children who don't have beds get a good night's sleep.

• Pinellas County students helping non-profit Sleep in Heavenly Peace
• Students have built 40 beds so far for less fortunate kids
• 400 children are on the waiting list for beds

The teens are taking a break from their veterinary, game program simulation, and nursing courses for a good cause. They're helping the non-profit organization Sleep in Heavenly Peace build beds for children in Pinellas County who don't have them.

"I cried the first time I delivered a bed. These families are in the worst positions of their life," said Jim Baker, President of the Pinellas County Chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

It's a position 15-year-old Izaiah Frost says he knows first-hand.

"When I was younger I was kind of in the same situation so this is very important for me to help them," the 10th grader said.

High schoolers finding it in their hearts to lend a helping hand.

"I think that it’s important for everyone to help their community and to really play a role in helping the less fortunate," 15-year-old Anastasia Godfrey said.

The beds can't be built quickly enough. Four-hundred children are on a waiting list.

"Most of them are sleeping on the floor in piles of clothes or on a blowup mattress or a bunch of kids are sharing a bed," Baker explained.

That's why these students are making sure kids can get tucked into a bed at night. Baker says some of them attend classes in Pinellas County Schools.

"This is really hands-on and active and we’re working as a team," Godfrey said.

The hope is the students leave school with the lesson to help in their community.

"I would feel like I led an incomplete life if I hadn’t helped people," said Godfrey.

Through helping, Frost wants to spare others what he once knew.

"I felt really sad for the kids we’re helping and then I got real excited because I knew once we’re done and however many beds we get, a lot more people’s lives will be a lot better than they are right now," he said.

The students built forty beds.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace delivered more than 500 beds in 2019. They hope to double that number in 2020.