I was alone at today’s Milk Run, feeling how Sister Joan must have felt so many times when she was distributing baby milk formula to needy moms.
I delivered 14 boxes of formula in Rong Moo and gave 4 packs of baby diapers. In Suan Ooy, another 14 boxes and 1 pack of diapers. All was done from 7am until 9:30am.
K. Anju sponsored a Milk Run event in Mar and this time bought rice for our registered seniors. We gave out 61 bags of rice, fish sauce, cooking oil and pork to seniors of Rong Moo and Suan Ooy communities.
Yesterday’s Milk Run was a special one as Yvonne came to help. Yvonne helped Sister Joan since the early 2000s, with recruiting volunteers, raising funds and locating and paying for Sister’s storage room for years. Yvonne also introduced me to Sister Joan and in the process changed my life.
This Friday Yvonne came to help along with Laura and Adri and we delivered 7 packs of baby diapers, 13 packs of milk formula in Rong Moo and another 14 in Suan Ooy community.
As often, Sister’s now 18 year old truck also got a wash…. here are more pics from Fri the 16th of September – a day like no other.
Shannon is in Australia and we didn’t have any volunteers who could drive Sister Joan’s truck so today we had to get creative. Sa and I did the shopping starting at 7am instead of 10 so we could have time to bring all supplies to Boss and pack the Rice Run food items into individual bags too.
Then we parked the loaded truck at the distribution point in Rong Moo so Janna, Martel & Claire could deliver the food without driving.
They gave away 62 bags too our registered recipients. Here are more photos from today…
Another great Milk Run with May and Adri. We started a bit late (because of me) but delivered all the help without missing anyone.
As had been the trend since 2011, less and less moms are registering their babies and so we’re delivering much less milk formula and baby diapers.
In Feb of 2011 we had 150 babies just in Rong Moo – now that number is 12. Today, only 10 came which also shows that the 300 baht box of baby milk formula is not as important to them as it used to be.
In Suan Ooy we gave out 5 packets of milk formula (all moms of registered babies showed up) and another 10 packets to registered seniors that take milk formula as a food supplement. We also delivered baby diapers in both communities to the neediest 6 moms.
Sapee and Rolland joined this Rice Run shopping leg and we were on fire – less than 2 hours from meeting in Klong Toei, shipping at Makro and Klong Toei market and delivering everything back to boss Mansion.
In the afternoon, May, Martel, Janna and others delivered the food supplies to our registered needy in Klong Toei slum. David came to help with driving Sister’s truck. Another successful Rice Run…
Adri and May joined me for this Milk Run. We delivered 10 packets of milk formula to Rong Moo moms and another 17 in Suan Ooy.
As on every Milk Run, we also gave baby diapers to the neediest 6 of the moms.
Afterwards, I took Sister’s 18 year old truck for it’s regular wash…. Here are more pictures from that Friday…
The Thai Mother’s Day Rice Run was a special one! Sister Cecilia surprised us with her presence and so did SJ – one of the three people responsible for our continuing effort with Sister Joan’s Mission.
It was (from left to right) me, SJ and Shannon that agreed to continue Sister Joan’s work when Sister Joan left in October of 2016.
On Aug 12th, Sister Cecilia, Shannon, SJ and other volunteers delivered 62 bags of food supplies to our registered recipients. Here are more pictures from that day….
Nikola, May and Adri did this Milk Run while I was returning to Bangkok.
Nikola distributed the milk formula from the back of Sister’s truck and May and Adri took care of registration cards, weighing babies and taking beautiful shots.
They delivered 10 packets of milk formula to Rong Moo moms and another 5 to Suan Ooy. Here are more pics…
I was in the USA while Shannon, May and others held the regular Rice Run event.
Roland came to help as well… 62 Thais showed up to collect. Here are more pictures from Friday, July 29rh…
