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…
In sweltering March heat we did another Rice Run. Miron and I did the shopping part and enjoyed the usual Starbucks pit stop on our way to Klong Toei and Boss.
In the afternoon Claire led the effort and the team distributed 54 sets of food items.
Another day in Bangkok… how did we get so lucky to have a life like this?…
With the spirit of Chinese New Year still in the air, Sapee and I hit the road for a shopping trip.
First stop: Makro to get the Rice Run and Milk Run supplies. Then off to Klong Toei market for dried pork that we provide to senior citizens.
In the afternoon, our volunteers came and distributed 54 packs of rice, fish sauce, cooking oil and dried pork to our registered Thai seniors.
Miron was at Makro like clockwork, ready and able to make this shopping trip another success.
As always, we stopped for a Starbucks break, purchased the dried pork at Klong Toei market, loaded the car with last Rice Run’s leftovers and finally parked the car in Rong Moo – ready for the volunteers to come and distribute the food.
In the afternoon Sister Cecilia came to help out too! Here are more photos from this Rice Run
Miron and I met at Makro to start this Rice Run Friday.
After shopping and a short coffee break we stopped at Boss, unloaded the Milk Run supplies we purchased and added whatever was left from the last Rice Run to the truck. As usual, we left the loaded car in Rong Moo, at the distribution point Sister Joan used since the 1990s…
Later on, our volunteers arrived and distributed 56 sets of food items to our registered seniors.
I did the shopping on my own this time. It is easy except for loading up the car. There I need to move all the bags of rice twice – once to the back edge of the car before I climb in and place them closer to the center of the truck.
As usual, after completing the shopping trip I stopped by Boss and organized everything for the afternoon distribution and finally left the loaded truck in the slum.
Our incredible volunteers did all the rest! We had 56 of our registered Thai senior citizens show up to collect their biweekly bag of rice, cooking oil, fish sauce and dried pork. Here are more pictures from this Rice Run….
The last Sister Joan Mission event of 2023 was carried out by the amazing men and women who make this work possible – the volunteers from different countries and cultures, different backgrounds and religions all coming together to help the needy people of Klong Toei slum.
I wanted to take 10 days off at the end of the year so with Sisters’ approval I made the purchase of everything that was needed for this last Rice Run of the year and left it ready in our storage space.
Our amazing volunteers came and loaded it into the truck, drove it to Rong Moo community and distributed 54 sets to our registered Thai seniors.
Below are more images from our final event of 2023…. Thank you all for your contribution and hope we can continue Sister Joan’s incredible work. It is an Incredible work of compassion.
I decided to take a week off so this Friday shopping trip was used to purchase for and milk formula items for the rest of December and early January event: Dec 15 and Dec 22 and Dec 29 and Jan 5th.
Michi and Gabriel saved the day and came to help me purchase and load up all that – the truck was filled to the brim, just how Sister Joan and I used to do when Rice Run had twice the recipients it has today.
After we loaded the truck we went and bought dried pork and unloaded from the car what wasn’t needed at Boss storage room. The truck was left parked and ready for the afternoon crew to open and deliver the food packages.
As for every Rice Run before Christmas, we delivered a little extra to each recipient. This year they received a bottle juice, soy milk and a bar of soap.
Here are more pics from Dec 15 Rice Run…
Sapee came to help with shipping for today’s Rice Run and next week’s Milk Run.
We loaded Sister’s truck and left it park in Rong Moo community
In the afternoon Janna led the charge and our volunteers delivered 57 packages of food items to our registered Thai seniors. Here are more pics…
Trini was visiting Bangkok this week so she generally came to help with both shopping and distribution on this Rice Run Friday.
We were done at Makro in no time and Trini went back to Rong Moo at 3:30. She and other volunteers served all of our 58 registered recipients with rice, oil, fish sauce and pork.
Sapee and I finished the shopping part easily in the morning and parked the loaded car in Rong Moo as we usually do.
In the afternoon, Kay was in town and came to help out. We had a full team delivering food to 54 of our 58 registered Thai seniors.
We had a great team in place and the delivery ended as usual: with a cold beverage at the local store… Here are more pics…
