Sister Joan started the Milk Run back in 1992 and the program has been running every 2 weeks ever since. It delivers milk formula to mom’s who can not breast feed because they are HIV positive or for other reasons. The babies are entitled to 1 box of baby milk formula every 2 weeks until their 1st birthday. Some continue past that point – our oldest recipient is a 27 year old, severely handicapped girl.
The Milk Run events start every 2nd Friday at 7 am in Rang Moo community of Klong Toei slum. We finish by 10:30 am. This is a Google Maps link to where we meet at: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RCYSXM2dBkjPBF1g6
Here are the posts from past events…
The first time Milos didn’t show up in Rong Moo for a Milk Run in a very long time. Covid is making me stop delivering help but Nikola and Adri are stepping up and being there for Thai mom’s and babies.
They delivered 24 boxes of milk formula to Rong Moo mom’s and registered a pair of new twins there. In Suan Ooy they gave away 13 boxes and registered a new baby as well. Here are more shots…
Nikola, Irza and his friend came to help on this Milk Run. We are experiencing increase in Covid cases in Bangkok so I’m addition to using all safety measures possible, we decided to avoid all physical contact with moms and babies. Because of this, we gave milk formula to every mom that showed up with a registration card and a Thai ID but didn’t use the stamp and just verbally informed them about when to come for milk again.
We gave out 23 boxes of milk formula and registered 2 new babies in Rong Moo. Here are more pics…
Another good Milk Run done today. Erez couldn’t make it but me, May, Carol, Cindy and Bah were there to give out 26 boxes of milk formula in Rang Moo and another 18 in Suan Ooy community.
We also handed out clothing items, baby diapers and used the scale like always to see baby’s progress.
In Suan Ooy we added a beautiful boy-girl set of twins. At 5 weeks old, they are only 2.4 and 2.3kg!… Here are more pics from today…
We started in darkness of Klong Toei this morning. Carol, May and I met at Boss, loaded Sister Joan’s truck and delivered the milk formula to 22 moms and grand moms in Rang Moo.
In Suan Ooy, we gave another 16 boxes and by 10am the car was at a local wash too. Another great day in Bangkok… here are more shots:
Carol, Cindy and I had a lovely surprise this morning – two new volunteers showed up at the Rong Moo distribution to help out! It doesn’t happen often that we get volunteers this way and it was really appreciated.
We gave out 27 boxes of milk formula in Rong Moo and added two new babies to the registered roll. In Suan Ooy, we added a baby and gave out another 15 boxes. Here are more pictures…
Welcome to 2021!! We started with a Bang – getting up on Jan 1 at 6am and rushing to Klong Toei to help the moms. As expected, almost all of them showed up – very few could afford to leave Bangkok, especially since they don’t know if they’ll be able to return if there is another Covid shutdown here.
We used my truck today because Sister Joan’s pickup is on it’s annual service and registration trip. Carol came to help load and deliver the supplies. We added a bar of soap and a bottle of a Vitamin C drink to the baby formula each registered mom received. There was also baby clothes and moms loved getting that too….
Willy joined us for the Rang Moo distribution and we served 22 moms there. Two were new and came with their newborns, one mom completed the year and another got a three month extension because her little one is still small, still recovering from abdominal surgery done a few months ago.
In Suan Ooy, we gave away 16 packages of formula, soap and VItamin drink. One was a new mom – the one beaming in the photo on the top of this page. The little boy is just a week old. Here are more pics…
