Dear all,

Following a few ups and downs over the last few years our lives are finally getting back to normal. Unfortunately that is not the case for millions of people around the world who battle hunger, disease & death, not only for a few days, months or years, but for a lifetime with no hope of ever seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

  

In fact, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that of the world's 6-billion-plus people, at least ¾ of a billion people suffer from some form of malnutrition.

 

- About 50,000 people die each day as a result of malnutrition.

- 800 million people know what it is like to go to bed hungry.

- About 200 million children under the age of 5 are underweight.

- Millions of children die each year from the diseases of poverty: parasites and infectious diseases, such as whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, and malaria, with accompanying diarrhoea, which interact with poor nutrition in a vicious cycle.

- One child dies of these causes every two seconds.

- 15 children have died in the 30 seconds it took to read these statistics.

 

For that reason we have decided to no longer stand by and watch this happening but to do something about it by running the RAK HAlf Marathon for charity.

 

So please dig deep and donate now. EVERY FILS, PENNY or CENT COUNTS!!!!