NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The Niagara Falls City School District announced on Wednesday its new partnership with Sleep in Heavenly Peace to provide children in need with their own beds.

"The need for bedding and a good night's sleep for our kids is one of the basic needs that everyone needs to have a functional productive day," said Mark Laurrie, the superintendent of the Niagara Falls City School District. "Knowing that we have about 400 homeless children in the district, and others that are sleeping on couches and pallets, it's just not right."

Buffalo's chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace has built and delivered more than 6,200 beds to local children in the past five years. It costs them around $300 to put a bed together. These beds are given to the children for free.

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