For Katie MacColl, putting her musical talents to work for battered women is a sense of duty.

"I volunteer for a lot of causes,” said the 25 year-old North Surrey Secondary graduate. “I believe that one of our duties is to share our talents with society.”

The Katie MacColl band recorded the rhythm and blues song Back Off and another band, The Festive Eddies recorded Light Burning Low, a song MacColl describes as a “sort of a Tragically Hip acoustic thing,” for a cassette entitled Songs For Sanctuary.

The sales of the two song cassette directly benefits the Sanctuary Foundation, an organization working toward providing long term second-stage transitional housing for battered women and their children.

The cassettes sell for $5 each and MacColl said they have sold over 500 in two months.

The foundation, according to executive director Robyn Bradford, also plans on setting up legal counseling for battered women, establishing an educational bursary fund to help abused women who want to go back to school and starting up a kids rec program for children in abusive homes.

"The idea of the kids rec program is to encourage healthy activities and to raise self esteem,” Bradford said.

The Songs For Sanctuary tour has been visiting Lower Mainland area malls since March and will be winding up at Guildford Town Centre on May 14, 15 and 16.

MacColl said the main concern of the tour is raising the visibility of the Sanctuary Foundation.

MacColl and her fellow musicians are not making any money out of Songs For Sanctuary.

"There is a deeper reason for doing this than money,” she said.