Scribe Society and Buckner International ask Perry County residents to collect shoes

Shoes. We wear them everyday, yet many go without this comfort. In an effort to help provide shoes to orphans around the world, the Scribe Society in Perry County is teaming up with Buckner International to ask Perry County residents to collect shoes for children in need. The 10th annual nationwide "Shoes for Orphan Souls" shoe drive is seeking to collect more than 250,000 pairs of new shoes, socks and shoestrings, with a nationwide campaign. Since 1999, Buckner has sent more than 1.9 million pairs of new shoes to at-risk children in the United States and in more than 68 other countries around the globe and this year, these Southeast Missourians are trying to help. Pictured are members of the Scribe Society during a work session to make posters and drop boxes. They are (seated) Heather Baskin; (standing from left) Ashley Hotop, Jennifer Phillips, Kelsey Bert, Adam Thieret, Mia Pohlman and Olivia Duvall.