Cameron McQuaid knew he had to do something to help the people in Haiti. (CBC)

A young P.E.I. boy will be working hard for the next few weeks, baking more than 1,000 cookies to raise money for Haiti.

When five-year-old Cameron McQuaid of Greenvale heard about the earthquake in Haiti, he knew he had to help.

"They need some more money to buy some food and clothes and some more food, like healthy food," Cameron told CBC News Wednesday.

So Cameron and his mother Sarah are now working together to bake heart-shaped sugar cookies. They're selling them for $2 a dozen. The family expected a few orders, but the project grew when Cameron took a sign up sheet to his kindergarten.

"I signed in some of the teachers, the principal, and gym teacher, and signed in some of the kids' moms, and some kids wanted to sign in for their moms and dads," he said.

As of Wednesday afternoon Cameron had 86 orders, that's more than 1,000 cookies.

Sarah McQuaid had to explain a little about how foreign aid works. (CBC)

"We did kind of have to explain a little bit to that, because he thought he would go and actually buy the things and send the things to Haiti," said Sarah McQuaid.

"But we said no, we'll pick an organization that is there helping kids and mummies and daddies and we'll send it to them."

Cameron is not daunted by the amount of work he has to do over the next few weeks to get all those cookies baked.

"Bake them every day until my birthday!" he said, which will be the middle of February.

"That will give me lots of time to make a thousand."

Cameron said he can imagine how people in Haiti will feel when they get the money.

"It'll make them happy again to re-build their houses," he said.

While Cameron and his mother are already hard at work, the whole family will be pitching in this weekend.