Calling their charitable effort “A Million Apples for Haiti,” three local musicians have joined forces with a number of Washington apple growers to collect 10,000 boxes of donated apples to help provide housing for quake victims in Haiti. 

Members of the Yakima Valley Growers-Shippers Association (YVGSA) and The Village Musicians, a band founded by three brothers, plan to work with Hope for the Hungry, a Texas-based nonprofit organization, to provide aid to Haitians displaced by the January 12 earthquake. 

Several YVGSA members will donate the apples and the group will sell 9,000 boxes for $20 each to help raise about $185,000 needed to build 24 sturdy new homes in Haiti. 

The remaining 1,000 boxes of apples will be shipped to the Caribbean nation for distribution to the hungry. 

Hope for the Hungry is currently raising funds to build simple tract houses for Haitians.