We had the full crew this morning as Adri, Miron and Irza all came to help. Great talk and great work, we gave out 30 packs of milk formula in Rong Moo and Suan Ooy.
Later, I took Sister Joan’s old truck for another wash…
Category: Milk Run
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…
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Milk Run Feb 2, 2024
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 Rong Moo and another 15 in Suan Ooy. As usual, I took the truck for it’s biweekly wash after all was completed… Here are more pics from this Milk Run…
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Milk Run Jan 19, 2024
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 was pouring their used cooking oil into the sink drain!… I left the Boss crew mop it up and headed to pick up Adri and be on time in the slum – there were moms and their little babies waiting!
Adri and I delivered 15 packs of milk formula in Rong Moo and added another 14 in Suan Ooy. In that second community we also added another young mom with a newborn.
Adri left for work and I continued back to Boss to deal with the flooding…
In the end everything was sorted out but the storage room got a new lock on its door. In case you need to get in, please let me know!… Here are more pics from this Milk Run…
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Milk Run Jan 5, 2024
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 here…
I packed her car with milk formula at Boss Mansion storage and picked up Adri and Willy on my way back to Rong Moo.
We gave 14 boxes of milk formula to our registered moms there…
… and had our usual coffee before continuing to Suan Ooy community. There we delivered another 13 boxes and added another newborn to our list!
Here are more photos – all of us were snapping so many today! 😃
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Milk Run Dec 22, 2023
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 used to regularly have several hundred people in the Milk Run lines and the great news is that the need nowadays is much less. Because Thai people are having better lives (and less children too) the Milk Run program now serves a total of just over 30 registered people in two Klong Toei communities: Rong Moo and Suan Ooy.
After giving 10 packs of formula in Rong Moo, Adri and I rushed to shop for soy milk to give to the local kindergarten in Suan Ooy. Sister Joan made a yearly donation to them and this tradition continues…
In Suan Ooy, we gave away another 14 boxes of milk formula…
Here are more pictures from that day…
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Milk Run Dec 8, 2023
I was alone for this Milk Run. Adri, Willy, Miron and Sapee were not available but as in the past, one person can get everything done on their own….
I delivered 15 boxes of milk formula in Rong Moo and spent the usual coffee break updating records and reorganizing our admin box.
In Suan Ooy another 14 moms came to collect and there was also a new baby there!
Another great Friday in Klong Toei. After distribution I stopped by Pathumkonga High School for boys to make a tuition payment for one of the students in the School Run program.
Another great day in Sister Joan’s Mission work…
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Milk Run Nov 24, 2023
Adri was not well so I did this Milk Run alone, like Sister Joan used to do many years ago.
I delivered 12 packs of milk formula in Rong Moo, took a coffee break at Amazon Cafe as we usually do and then delivered another 13 packs of milk formula to the Suan Ooy community.
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Milk Run Nov 10, 2023
Irza and his brother Andrew surprised me at 6:20am in Rong Moo – they came to help with today’s distribution. We drove together to Boss, loaded the car with milk formula and pampers and then picked up Adri at Bus Terminal Eastern before 7am
Moms were in on time waiting for us at 7am. As always, no babies cried, no one tried to cut the line or fail to smile and be polite. Thai people do things with so much grace…
We registered 2 new babies at Rong Moo and another one later at Suan Ooy. And we delivered a total of 26 packets of milk formula. Here are more pics…
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Milk Run Oct 27, 2023
Adri has been amazing and came to help again. We met at the Bus Terminal Eastern as usual and drive into Rong Moo right at 7am.
Adri and me registered a new baby for the program and delivered 12 boxes of milk formula in Rong Moo and another 5 in Suan Ooy.
Here are more pics…
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Milk Run Oct 13, 2023
Willy and Adri and Irza came to deliver love to Klong Toei. The Team Indonesia and I started as always at 7am in Rong Moo.
We gave 13 boxes of milk formula in Rong Moo and registered a new recipient.
In Suan Ooy only 4 moms came to collect this time.
Here are more pics from this Milk Run….
