Another Milk Run with Sister Joan

We met Sister Joan at her house in the slums this morning around 7am. From there we went and moved her truck with all of the milk and supplies to begin the milk run. Over 100 children showed up at our first stop to collect powdered milk and a bag of donated clothing. A few were turned away as they did not have the proper identification or their mother was abusing drugs. Sister Joan will not give milk if she knows one of the parents is abusing drugs. It is clear when they are as you can see the cuts on their arms, legs or stomach where they inject the drugs directly into their blood. They mostly abuse heroin.

We then relocated to another area in the slums where we provide milk to about 30 or so children. Some of the children I remembered from the last milk run we did. It was nice to see some of them grown up and healthy. I love cuddling babies.

I will post more later. (Picking up wireless outside now, so I figured I should post what I have.


Getting the milk ready. Each family has a card that tells the information of the child and also tells the person handing out milk what to give. Each box is opened, and the milk package cut so that it cannot be resold but the families.

This guy is between 6-8 years old. He is an ongoing receiver of the milk.

This little one is 9 days old....so cute.

A quick update: P.Ning has been transfered to another hospital where she will be doing physiotherapy to try and get her strength back up.