Rice Run Jun 12, 2020
Sister Cecilia came from Rathaburi to join us and help out on this Rice Run. Trini also joined for a full day, shopping in the morning, packing mid day and the distribution from 4 to 5:15pm. As we used to, …
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 May 29, 2020
Today’s Rice Run was sponsored by the kind ladies of Soroptimist International Dusit Club. I met with June and her husband Robin at Makro and they paid for the cooking oil, fish sauce and sardines for our 86 seniors from …
Rice Run May 15, 2020
On May 15th we celebrated the return of our Rice Run volunteers to the weekly event. Covid may have put a pause on their attendance as many followed the reccommendatinos to stay away from crowds but as Thailand is seeing …
Rice Run May 1, 2020
We had a great Rice Run with a large group of volunteers composed of 4 adults and 4 of the students we sponsor through the School Run program. They all showed up spontaneously to lend a hand on a hot …
Rice Run Apr 17, 2020
The April 17th Rice Run was the first time two guys did a whole day effort and we had one girl show up at 4pm to help make this a great event! We started with the car wash and tire …
Rice Run Apr 3, 2020
This is a late post done a month after the event. Sorry for the delay, but wanted to post a record of another successful Rice Run we had. In the last three and a half years we haven’t missed a …
Rice Run Mar 20,2020
This is another late post – my apologies for taking so long to upload it. The Mar 20th was the first Covid-19 Rice Run and the ladies came up with a ingenious plan to create all the packages before going …
Rice Run, Mar 6, 2020
Sorry about this delayed post – so much was happening in March, too much to find time to upload these beautiful shots by Nicky and others who served 82 Thai seniors that day… Oh, Marylou joined us that day too!! …
Rice Run Feb 21, 2020
We delivered 85 packages of rice, sardines, fish sauce and cooking oil (provided by SILC) on a beautiful hot afternoon. As always, the volunteers made it look so easy…
Rice Run Feb 7, 2020
Another great Rice Run with Romy coming to Bangkok and joining us for another (her 9th) season of traveling to Thailand to help Sister Joan’s work. Back when Sister lived in Bangkok, Romy would spend every day with her, being …