"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book." - Marcel Proust
The Toronto Police Service was recently fortunate enough to receive 21,000 new hardcover books from the Pinball Clemens Foundation to disperse to communities throughout Canada. The books are varied in content and provide both education, and reading enjoyment, for youngsters seven to teenage.
With the help of Canadian Human Rights Voice (CHRV), a respected Canadian volunteer organization, off-duty police officers have sorted, boxed, and packaged the books, and found a home for over 15,000 books at Aboriginal schools, women's groups, and shelters in Toronto.
Police are also shipping 4,500 new books to First Nations Communities in northern Saskatchewan.
Police could not have achieved this goal without the remarkable help of the Pinball Clemens Foundation, the Dreamcatcher Fund (Canada's largest Aboriginal charitable body), the Toronto Aboriginal Consultative Council (representing 85,000 Aboriginals in the GTA), and CHRV.
This is the first of an ongoing volunteer project which will see police ship 50,000+ donated books annually, aimed at a young audience to associations and communities both in the GTA and across Canada.
The Toronto Police Service believe that literacy is the hallmark of a healthy and engaged community. We are very proud to do our part to help young Canadians learn the joy of reading a good book.
A media launch to ship the books to Canada's west will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at 10 a.m., at Toronto Police Traffic Services, 9 Hanna Avenue.
For more information, please contact:
Staff Sergeant Chuck Konkel, Toronto Police Operations Centre, 416-808-7000, or
Constable Kim Turner, Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit, 416-808-7406
The Toronto Police Service was recently fortunate enough to receive 21,000 new hardcover books from the Pinball Clemens Foundation to disperse to communities throughout Canada. The books are varied in content and provide both education, and reading enjoyment, for youngsters seven to teenage.
With the help of Canadian Human Rights Voice (CHRV), a respected Canadian volunteer organization, off-duty police officers have sorted, boxed, and packaged the books, and found a home for over 15,000 books at Aboriginal schools, women's groups, and shelters in Toronto.
Police are also shipping 4,500 new books to First Nations Communities in northern Saskatchewan.
Police could not have achieved this goal without the remarkable help of the Pinball Clemens Foundation, the Dreamcatcher Fund (Canada's largest Aboriginal charitable body), the Toronto Aboriginal Consultative Council (representing 85,000 Aboriginals in the GTA), and CHRV.
This is the first of an ongoing volunteer project which will see police ship 50,000+ donated books annually, aimed at a young audience to associations and communities both in the GTA and across Canada.
The Toronto Police Service believe that literacy is the hallmark of a healthy and engaged community. We are very proud to do our part to help young Canadians learn the joy of reading a good book.
A media launch to ship the books to Canada's west will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at 10 a.m., at Toronto Police Traffic Services, 9 Hanna Avenue.
For more information, please contact:
Staff Sergeant Chuck Konkel, Toronto Police Operations Centre, 416-808-7000, or
Constable Kim Turner, Aboriginal Peacekeeping Unit, 416-808-7406