Sister Joan 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, 30 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. When Sister Joan left Bangkok in 2016 we continued to support elementary and high school students with weekly money through the Food and Fares project. When Sister lived in Klong Toei, she knew each family and their individual situations but once she left Thailand we had to stop the Food and Fares project a year later as none of us lived in the slum and we haven’t had a way of knowing which students really needed help and were still attending the school. 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:
- Milk Run May 23, 2025What a great Milk Run we had! Adri and Miron were there as they always are but Irza came and introduced us to his life partner and his inspiration. We delivered 19 boxes of milk formula in Rong Moo and …
- Rice Run May 16, 2025Another Rice Run Friday… Miron, Soe and I went shopping and preparing the truck for the afternoon delivery. Later, Audrey and her volunteers delivered 61 packages of rice, fish sauce, cooking oil and dried pork to our registered Thai seniors.
- Milk Run May 9, 2025Adri and Miron came to make this another great Milk Run. We delivered 18 boxes of milk formula to our registered moms and seniors of Rong Moo and Suan Ooy. Here is more pics…
- Happy Birthday, Sister Joan!This May 3rd is Sister Joan’s 94th birthday. Missing her and Wishing her lots of calm and comfort! This beautiful Birthday image was created by Miron. 😃🌟🙏🏻
- Rice Run May 2, 2025Soe came to join Miron and me on this Rice and Milk Run products shopping trip. We completed everything but 12 noon and Miron went back to Rong Moo at 4 pm to help with delivery. 60 of our registered …
- Milk Run Apr 25, 2025Miron and I worked like a well oiled machine. 20 boxes of milk formula were delivered to the two Klong Toei slim communities. Our registered moms and seniors that use the milk formula as a nutritional supplement for another week’s …
- Rice Run Apr 19, 2025This Songkran week Rice Run was different. With Shannon and Paul gone and Audrey away for the Holiday, I volunteered to do the shopping and the distribution too. Fortunately, i was not alone! Amazingly, over so many years, kind people …
- Milk Run Apr 11, 2025Adri, Miron and I had another good Milk Run. We delivered 19 boxes of milk formula to our registered babies and seniors in Rong Moo and Suan Ooy communities. Here are more pics from Apr 11, a day like no …
- Rice Run Apr 4, 2025Miron and I did the shopping and our great volunteers were there to distribute the food items at 4 pm. They had 60 registered seniors come to collect their biweekly assistance.
- Milk Run Mar 28, 2025We finished distributing milk formula assistance long before the earthquake hit Mandalay and also Bangkok. 24 moms and seniors came to collect.
Upcoming Events:
Milk Run on Apr 25 at 7am
Rice Run on May 2 at 4pm
Milk Run on May 9 at 7am
Rice Run on May 16 at 4pm
Location:
Rong Moo community in Klong Toei slum
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