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 …
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 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 …
Rice Run Jan 24, 2020
The first Rice Run of the new yearly cycle (and a New Chinese Year) saw 88 new recipients each get a package including a big bag of rice, canned sardines, fish sauce and cooking oil. As usual, we had a …
Rice Run registration for 2020
As Sister Joan used to do, we set up a date for Jan 16, 2020 to meet in Rang Moo and register the recipients for the 2020 Rice Run cycle. Sister Lucy and Sister Kathleen happened to be in Bangkok …
Rice Run Jan 10, 2020
Welcome to the last Rice Run of the 2019 cycle! I went shopping alone but the process is so easy – it feels like Sister’s car is loading itself! The distribution was as easy as always with a great group …
Rice Run Dec 27, 2019
This is our last Rice Run of a decade. So much has happened and so many people assisted in this program in the past 10 years. We have been serving the people of Rang Moo and Suan Ooy neighborhoods every …