The Books For Reading program will host a concert on April 25 to raise money to ship books and supplies to schoolchildren in Haiti.
The concert, featuring Richard Underhill, The Philip May Trio, Paul Dunn Gary DiSalle and Tom Linklater, will start at 8 p.m. at St. Andrew's Place at 111 Larch St.
Organizer Guy Campeau said the literacy group hopes to raise at least $10,000.
Campeau, a special education teacher with Rainbow District School Board, started the program six years ago when he discovered there were a lot of books sitting idle in school board storage rooms.
The books are between two and 20 years old and have a range of titles, including Tom Sawyer and Judy Bloom. There are alphabet books, adventure books, atlases and textbooks. They come from the Rainbow board and English and French Catholic boards.
Campeau knew he could put them to good use.
"The books are going places where poverty is a major issue," he said.
In all, 10,000 books and 100 school desks will travel by truck from Sudbury to Toronto and by ship from Toronto to Haiti, where 70 per cent of the people live in poverty.
"We guarantee safe arrival of the material," Campeau said.
Concert tickets are available at Black Cat, Octave Music, Durham Natural Foods, Prom Music Centre and Guitar Clinic.
To learn more about world literacy, go online to campaignforeducation.org.
