Medications purchased at wholesale are sent to combat diarrhea and conjunctivitis along with ampicillin, penicillin and children's vitamins. Orphan Grain Train continues to appeal for cash donations to purchase and ship bulk quantities of food and medicine to survivors of Hurricane Mitch. In the past year, Rev. Rudy Schaser of Lutheran Hour Ministries and Rev. Ray Wilke of Orphan Grain Train visited Nicaragua's Chinandega province and talked with students, parents, teachers and local community leaders. This effort began in the winter of 2000, and will continue as long as donated items and cash support for shipping them are received. A simple thing like milk is viewed as an unattainable luxury.
Many kids have no shoes on their feet.
Children who walk 7 kilometers to and from school every day. Arriving at school feeling dizzy because you have had no breakfast. Beautiful children dressed in tatters. Becoming a teen-aged parent, because there is little else to do. Some teachers walk 4-5 hours each day to and from school.