Rice Run Dec 11, 2020
Sister Cecilia joined us for the whole day, the shopping part as well as rice distribution in the afternoon. She does it all – helping, advising, listening and looking for ways to help the poor. A true inspiration in these …
Category: Rice Run
The Rice Run project serves the elderly, typically over 60 years old, often living alone. This program started in late 1990s as a donation of rice to the needy and evolved in early 2000s into a more substantial help to registered recipients. Every 2 weeks, they receive a 5kg bag of rice, dried pork, a bottle of fish sauce and a bottle of cooking oil. Often, we will add more items donated by different individuals or organizations.
Events in the Rice Run take place every 2nd Friday at 4pm in Rang Moo community of Klong Toei slum. This is a Google Maps link to where we meet: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RCYSXM2dBkjPBF1g6
Below are the posts and pictures from our past events…
Rice Run Nov 27, 2020
Brenda came for one last rice and milk shopping trip before her family leaves Bangkok. It was a bitter sweet moment but we made the best of it. We loaded the truck and did that very efficiently considering that it …
Rice Run Nov 13, 2020
The first Rice Run of the dry season was a relief. We lost five of our 85 registered recipients in the past month and it was great to see most of the registered seniors show up on a beautiful sunny …
Rice Run Sep 30, 2020
We had another Rice Run with covid schedule: Carol and Willy joined me for the shopping trip to Makro, Penang Market and Klong Toei Market and Shannon led the team of volunteers in the afternoon. They met in Boss Mansion …
Rice Run Oct 16, 2020
As usual, our Rice Run Friday started with adding air to the tires before our shopping trip to Makro and Penang Markets. Carol and Willy joined for another great aquisition trip. We had a great downpour in the afternoon and …
Rice Run Oct 2, 2020
As usual, we started the Friday Rice Run with picking up Sister Joan’s truck and adding air to it’s tires before heading to Makro. Carol and Willy joined the effort and we purchased rice, cooking oil, fish sauce and diapers …
Rice Run Sep 18, 2020
Carol and I did the shopping part of Rice Run and it was longer than usual. We loaded 79 bags of rice only to find that this kind was too expensive and we had to do buy another kind. After …
Rice Run Sep 4, 2020
we’re getting our volunteer numbers back to pre Covid days. On Sep 4th, we had 4 of us for the rice and milk shopping trip and another 8 kind souls at the 4 pm distribution We gave out 80 packages …
Rice Run Aug 21, 2020
We had a Rice Run like we used to have pre-Covid: so many people came to give their energy and time. In the morning, Shannon, Carol and I went to Makro to get most of the stuff for the Rice …
Rice Run Aug 7, 2020
Another Rice Run with great crew – Carol and Shannon joined the shopping leg and made everything so light, Sister Joan would have had such a great time if she was with us… We finished all in 2 hours, some …
Rice Run Jul 24, 2020
Yesterday Trini had her last Rice Run for a while as she’s leaving Bangkok soon and returning to Australia. She took over the Rice Run and did shopping for supplies and then packing and distribution too. A wonderful effort and …