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 …
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 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 …
Rice Run Nov 29, 2019
A difficult shopping day for me – I was alone loading the truck at Makro plus there were issues there with affordable fish sauce being out of stock and another one when I came to the checkout to discover I …
Rice Run Nov 1, 2019
Sister Cecilia joined our Rice Run and Milk Run shopping this time and brought her positive energy and always “can do” attitude along. We also had Simon come to Makro to help load the truck with 500kg of rice, 500 …
Rice Run Oct 18, 2019
Sister Cecilia saved the day. She came to Bangkok for 24 hours, went to our car that couldn’t start and had it fixed and delivered to Sacret Heart Convent so we could get it this morning and make the shopping …
Rice Run Oct 4, 2019
We had a great Rice Run event on Friday. In addition to the standard 5kg of rice, 5 cans of sardines, bottle of fish sauce and a bottle of cooking oil donated by SILC, we also gave each registered senior …