Pete came to help me shop for this Rice Run.
As usual, we left the car parked in Rong Moo for the volunteers to open and distribute the rice, coming oil, fish sauce and dried pork to our Thai seniors.
After looking for a way for many years, this Thai man decided to come to the Rice Run distributions and donate to each of our registered recipients a pack of fresh eggs.
This Rice Run was sponsored by a generous donation from the Shah family.
After about 20 years, we have decided to let go of the Boss Manson storage room.
Yvonne rented it for Sister Joan in 2005 or 2006 and was paying the rent for it until she left Bangkok in 2015.
It was a great space, close to Sister’s home and big enough for all the donations and purchased items Sister Joan distributed to the poor.
Covid 19 (and lack of volunteers) derailed my plan to turn it into a classroom for a Code Run project I wanted to add to Milk, Rice and the School Run projects we already do.
In January, after (about) 20 years, Boss Manson asked us if we were okay with a (very nominal) increase in rent – this made us reevaluate and decide to let go of it.
Thank you all for the years of using this space. We’ll use a small portion of my house to store left over milk and rice between our weekly events…
Adri, Miron and Pete came to help and Irza was there as well.
We delivered 19 boxes of milk formula and registered two new babies in Rong Moo community
Here are more shots from this Milk Run…
Miron decided to help the distribution effort so this shopping trip it was just Pete and me.
In the afternoon, 60 Thai seniors came to collect rice, cooking oil, fish sauce and dried pork packages.
This Rice Run was generously sponsored by the Shah family.
Sister Cecilia and Adri joined this Milk Run.
We delivered 17 boxes of milk formula to Thai moms and seniors. Here are more pics from Jan 16th…
Pete joined me for the shopping leg of this Rice Run and we were able to get everything done in record time.
Willy led the afternoon effort (and photo taking part) and 58 seniors received their food parcels.
Here are more pics from Jan 9th Rice Run
This Rice Run was generously sponsored by the Shah family.
This Milk Run started with my commute in complete darkness. Adri, Miron and willy all came to start the the 34th year of Milk Run on a great note.
We delivered 13 boxes of milk formula in Rong Moo and Suan Ooy communities.
Audrey brought her immediate family to this final Rice Run of 2025.
They delivered 60 food packages to our registered Thai seniors of Klong Toei slum.
Happy 2026, everyone! We had a very emotional 2025, said goodbye to Sister Joan and resolved to continue her Mission in Rong Moo and Suan Ooy communities.
Hope to see you there in 2026! 🌟
This Rice Run was generously sponsored by the Shah family.
Miron and Adri came to help with this last Milk Run of the year. We delivered 18 boxes of milk formula and registered a new baby in Rong Moo community.
Here are more pics from the Milk Run…
After we finished, Adri and I went to Teach to buy and deliver the annual enhanced milk donation to the local kindergarten.
We donated 6 cases of 12 packs each to the 32 kids at Suan Ooy pre school… there was a real Christmas Joy in the air!
Here’s more pics…
Finally, at the end, Sister Joan’s old truck got is share of TLC. 🥰
Another beautiful Milk Run!
As was Sister Joan’s practice, Sisters Lucy and Cecilia added a Christmas gift to the last Rice Run before Christmas. This year, we choose to add 5 cans of fish to the usual package of rice, cooking oil, fish sauce and dried pork.
Miron and I did the shopping part of the Run…
… in the afternoon, our volunteers delivered all of food packages to registered Thai seniors.
We will have the last Rice Run of 2025 on Fri, Dec 26.
Like last three Rice Runs, this Rice Run was generously sponsored by the Shah family.