CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A local paper company donated thousands of brand-new books to Classroom Central in west Charlotte.
Fort Mill-based Domtar is one of the nation's largest paper companies. The company donated 40,000 books as part of a national nonprofit program called First Book, which provides books to children in need.
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Channel 9 was there Tuesday as dozens of volunteers sorted through the books. It took a tractor-trailer to get the books into Classroom Central.
Teachers can take up to 200 books and give them to their students.
The value of all the books, if teachers were to go out and buy them, is somewhere around $300,000.
They aren't directly available to the public, but teachers can register through the First Book program to participate.
Learn more here.
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