On Monday the United Nations rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined. Although the current 1,600 death toll in Pakistan represents a tiny fraction of the estimated 610,000 people killed in the three previous events, some two million more people – 13.8 million – have suffered losses requiring long or short-term help.

Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: "This disaster is worse than the tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake."

 

I am going to run the London Hyde Park half-marathon - 13miles (20km) on Sunday 10th October 2010 to raise money to help the DEC in their appeal for Pakistan.

 

Please dig deep and donate.

 

You can donate directly to the D.E.C as well.

http://www.dec.org.uk/