The BIG Book Drive aims to collect 6,500 books in Burnaby March 19 – 20

 Three Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business Project Management students – Joseph Choi, Alex Venetis and Steffi Chua – organized an inaugural book drive coined, “The BIG Book Drive” to collect books for the Salvation Army.

 On February 26th, The BIG Book Drive team collected 3,500 books at Lansdowne Mall in Richmond, far surpassing their initial goal of 2,000 books. The next BIG Book Drive event aims to collect thousands more books.

This event will be a two day drive taking place on March 19 and 20th at The Salvation Army’s Divisional Headquarters in Burnaby, B.C. ( 3833 Henning Drive ) from 10am – 6pm.  All books collected will be donated to the organization directly benefiting The Salvation Army Community and Family Services along with other literacy-related programs.

“We are so incredibly thankful for the generosity of the Richmond community for donating over 3,500 books to our book drive. Initially, we were estimating that we would be able to reach just 2,000 books from both events,” says Joseph Choi, one of the BIG Book Drive coordinators. “This is not the end, we still have one more event for the Burnaby community to donate their books and aid us in helping the Salvation Army. This time, our new goal will be 6,500 books.”

The BIG Book Drive welcomes all types of books from children’s books to magazines and textbooks (with the exception of adult-oriented materials and newspapers).

“We want to donate books to an organization that already has programs in-place to increase literacy amongst low-income families and children, so we chose the Salvation Army,” says Alex Venetis. “People have lots of books lying around at home that can be redirected towards these communities.”

Event Information:

March 19 – 20: 

Location – 3833 Henning Dr. in Burnaby, British Columbia

Time – 10:00am to 6:00pm on both the Saturday and Sunday