Disaster Response Hotline: (402) 371-9313
Orphan Grain Train’s Norfolk disaster response team includes two disaster response veterans, Mr. Vern Steinman and Dr. Aaron Walter.
Both men served Orphan Grain Train during ten months of the Hay and Grain Lift effort in response to Nebraska’s drought of 2002-2003. They oversaw the delivery of more than 330 semi-trailer loads of donated hay and grain to farms and ranches in central and western Nebraska.
Vern and Aaron have also managed Orphan Grain Train’s response to requests for food and relief supplies, questions about donations, and volunteer sign-up and assignment after hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Gustav and Ike.
Donors, volunteers, and disaster relief workers may call Orphan Grain Train’s Hurricane Response Hot-line: (402) 371-9313, Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 12:00 Noon. You may also leave a message after hours. (If the hot-line is busy, please try later, or call Orphan Grain Train’s main telephone number: (402) 371-7393, ext. 115.)