The Rolla Daily News - News

Rolla High School graduate Aimee Paule is heading to Honduras on a mission trip and is asking the Rolla community for help in collecting donations to take with her on her journey.

Paule, who is the daughter of Jerry Paule and Laurie Dunn, of Rolla, has worked hard over the last several months to raise more than 2,000 to take the trip with THE ROCK, a campus church at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Now she is hoping to fill the cargo hold on the plane she will be taking with twin sheets and children s shoes for the people of Honduras.

Already, the Phelps County Regional Medical Center (PCRMC) has agreed to donate dozens of sheets and Paule s sister, a 2002 RHS graduate who now teaches in Oklahoma, has collected over 50 pairs of shoes.

Paule s family is hoping to receive more donations from the Rolla community that they can take to Paule at Mizzou before she leaves for the mission trip on March 23. Paule said the children of Honduras, as well as the local hospital, are always in need of supplies.

The focus of the donation drive will be the collection of sheets and shoes for children age 7 and under, which will be distributed at the hospital and Honduran orphanage. Donations will be accepted until March 19, and can be dropped off in the lobby at 1007 North Elm Street in Rolla.
Paule is a 2004 RHS graduate and is currently a junior at the University of Missouri-Columbia majoring in Biological Sciences with a minor in Spanish.

She hopes to eventually become a physician who devotes part of her time each year to medical mission trips around the world. While in Honduras, Paule, along with Pastor John Drage and the rest of the mission team, will help build two homes, each for single mothers fostering children in the area. The team will spend a great deal of time at the Malnourishment Clinic for orphans and impoverished children, many of whom have disabilities, where they will help care for the children.

They will also share the gospel at the jail, as well as host puppet shows and drama presentations at the local school.

Also accompanying Paule on the mission trip is another 2004 RHS graduate, Brian Bowe, son of Walter and Jeanne Bowe. Brian, also a junior at Mizzou, is majoring in turf management.

Comments are limited to 200 words or less. Bill wrote on March 15, 2007 4:47 PM: I truly wished that many of the people in the states would stop and think what they are doing sometimes instead of doing - what makes me feel good! Honduras is NOT a poor country anymore - there are many, many poor people here but the country is NOT.

What it is is full of coruption. The children do need help but the adults sell everything that you donate. I should know, I have been here for years.

Go back in a month and ask them where the items are that you gave them - they will just smile at you. I know that I am sounding harsh but, Honduras has been turned into a welfare country. The children do need help, I will always help them, but the adults need to get a job.

to dumbfounded wrote on March 15, 2007 4:11 PM: Though there is no lack of misfortune in this world, we, as Americans, still have it better than most.
dumbfounded wrote on March 15, 2007 11:28 AM: Why do we help those overseas when our help is needed in the US?