What is Orphan Grain Train you ask? Well we're excited to tell you! Orphan Grain Train is a Christian volunteer network that ships donated
food, clothing, medical and other needed items to people in 64 different
countries including the USA. In 1992, Rev. Ray S. Wilke, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Norfolk,
Neb., volunteered with a group of Lutherans who traveled to Latvia and
Russia to help with a church mission. There they met people with "no
hope" in desperate need of spiritual, emotional, and humanitarian aid
after the breakup of the former Soviet Union.Wilke envisioned a train that would travel through America's midwest,
picking up cars of donated grain along the way, until it reached a port
from which the grain would be shipped to feed starving orphans in
Eastern Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Wilke contacted Clayton
Andrews, president of Andrews Van Lines, a worldwide transportation
company, and told his story. Together, they founded Orphan Grain Train.*
PET International and Orphan Grain Train have partnered together for many years to bring humanitarian aid to children around the world. When PET West Michigan was asked to provide 60 PET carts to be shipped through the OGT program, we couldn't have been more pleased to oblige.
To learn more about the Orphan Grain Train, visit their website at: http://www.ogt.org/
To find out how to get involved with PET West Michigan and donate a PET cart to a waiting child, visit our website at www.petwestmichigan.org
*Information from the OGT website
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