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 new lows in infections and deaths (this was the first week of days with zero new cases), the climate is changing and everyone feels more hope that we can resume parts of our “old normal”.

So we had 7 volunteers show up to pack and deliver food packages and 80 Thai seniors and their family members showed up to collect. We are still spacing the recipients by asking them to show up at 4 different times depending on the color of their registration cards but we can see how this too will eventually go back to the old way of seeing everyone at the same time… some day soon, I hope. Thank you ladies for great photographs and the amazing compassion you are delivering.