Miron was at Makro like clockwork, ready and able to make this shopping trip another success. As always, we stopped for a Starbucks break, purchased the dried pork at Klong Toei market, loaded the car with last Rice Run’s leftovers …
A wonderful surprise visit by Shannon! 🥰 Completely unexpectedly Shannon came to this Friday’s distribution and we had a blast. Lots of laughter and love, her presence seemed to lift everyone’s spirits. We delivered 15 boxes of milk formula in …
Miron and I met at Makro to start this Rice Run Friday. After shopping and a short coffee break we stopped at Boss, unloaded the Milk Run supplies we purchased and added whatever was left from the last Rice Run …
A bit unusual Milk Run today. As I arrived at Boss at 6:30 in the morning to load up the car, I found sewage that overflew into our storage room. Turned out that the small Thai restaurant right next door …
I did the shopping on my own this time. It is easy except for loading up the car. There I need to move all the bags of rice twice – once to the back edge of the car before I …
Our first event of 2024 started in morning darkness… Driving into the slum that is slowly waking up reminded me of Sister Joan and her 25 years in this little corner of Thailand’s largest slum. How amazing was her life …
The last Sister Joan Mission event of 2023 was carried out by the amazing men and women who make this work possible – the volunteers from different countries and cultures, different backgrounds and religions all coming together to help the …
The last Milk Run of the 31st year of giving milk formula to mothers of Klong Toei slum. In these three-plus decades we’ve watched countless babies grow and many return to us as young mothers with their newborns. Sister Joan …
As every year, the volunteers met for a Christmas meal and this time we invited the participants of our School Run program to join us too. In all, 11 volunteers and 4 students met at Cuppa restaurant on Soi 16 …
I decided to take a week off so this Friday shopping trip was used to purchase for and milk formula items for the rest of December and early January event: Dec 15 and Dec 22 and Dec 29 and Jan …