This week saw the Rice Run, Milk Run and the School Run participants all come together to the same event. I don’t think this has ever happened in almost 30 years since Sister Joan Mission was started and what a great time we had.

Best, our Thai volunteer suggested that we offer a lunch to all of our registered recipients and she, her husband Pum and a group of their Thai friends and family members raised money for 200+ large packages of lunch, additional cans of sardines, snacks and sanitizing alcohol. They delivered everything at 9:30 as planned and we were able to quickly set up and start at 10am.

Our Rice Run and Milk Run volunteers raised 23000 baht this week to support the effort. Shannon and Paul used some of that money yesterday to get 130 large bags of white rice from Makro and deliver it this morning. We also brought out all the adult and baby items (about 20 boxes) that have been donated to Sister Joan Mission since Covid pandemic started and we had plenty of hands to distribute it all.

Five of our School Run project students shower up to help pack the food items for everyone before they too received their share. The sun was brutal, we were all rushing to finish and by 11:30 we served a total of 115 people and their families and everyone was quickly gone after we got this great group shot taken.

Thank you Shannon, Paul, Helen, Grace, Susan and Janna for coming to help and represent our group. It was a great effort and I really hope we can add more of these.

Here are more photos from this morning: