Sister Joan Evans was 60 years old when she moved from Perth, Australia to Bangkok’s largest slum to serve the poor in 1991. She worked tirelessly 7 days a week for years and showed us the power of compassion and care for fellow humans. She inspired volunteers who kept coming, many of them for years. You can read more about Sister Joan here
This website is dedicated to her Mission that is still going, 34 years on. Sister Joan started the Milk Run in 1992 in response to high mortality of newborns and babies at that time. The Rice Run was organized as a group effort in 2002, after years of supporting different households and seeing that Klong Toei seniors needed help in getting basic food items. The focus of Presentation Sisters order is education so in 2019 we started a new program called the School Run that supports registered students in completing university education.
Here are the posts and pictures from our latest events:
- Rice Run Nov 28, 2025This is another Rice Run generously sponsored by the Shah family. Miron came to help with shopping part and we took a break at excellent Yen Akat Bagels place. We finished it all, I mean: all. 😃 At the afternoon …
- Milk Run Nov 21, 2025The Rainy season seems to have finally ended and the weather has gotten cool in Bangkok. Sun is up later as well so heading to Klong Toei starts in the dark… Willy came to join Adri, Miron and me this …
- Rice Run Nov 14, 2025This is the second Rice Run generously sponsored by the Shah family. Carmen joined Miron and me for the morning shopping trip. We finished at Makro in record time, had Yen Akat bagels for breakfast and got dried pork at …
- Milk Run Nov 7, 2025Adri and Miron joined, as usual. We delivered a total of 13 boxes of milk formula to residents of Rong Moo and Suan Ooy communities. Here are more pics from this event…
- Rice Run Oct 31, 2025This Rice Run was fully sponsored by a very generous Shah family donation. Miron and I met at Makro for the morning part. All was purchased and car packed in good time! Claire led the afternoon distribution effort. 60 food …
- Milk Run Oct 24, 2025Adri, Miron and Irza joined this Milk Run and Miron brought enough sweets for a party! 😃 Two cakes and a pack of delicious German chocolate for each of us. We were high on sugar for hours! In all, we …
- Rice Run Oct 17, 2025The shopping part was done in the morning with minimal delay…. 61 good packages were delivered in the afternoon to our registered Thai seniors. Here are more pics from this Friday…
- Milk Run Oct 10, 2025Adri and Miron came to help on this Friday. We delivered 17 boxes of milk formula and registered two new babies in Rong Moo. Here are more pics from that Friday…
- Remembering Sister Joan Oct 5, 2025I invited our volunteers to come and share memories of Sister Joan and her Bangkok Mission on a Sunday afternoon. We picked Kuppa, the lovely Australian restaurant Sister Joan liked to visit on Soi 16. Miron and Claire came and …
- Rice Run Oct 3, 2025Miron and I did the shopping this Friday. In the afternoon, our volunteers delivered 60 food packages to our registered Thai seniors.
UPCOMING EVENTS – we still use the same schedule Sister Joan created in 2015: Milk Run and Rice Run alternate every week… coming next:
Rice Run on Nov 28 at 4pm
Milk Run on Dec 5 at 7am
Rice Run on Dec 12 at 4pm
Milk Run on Dec 19 at 7am
Location:
Rong Moo community in Klong Toei slum
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