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On 15 March 2026 I will run the Richmond Spring Riverside 10k for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Middle East Humanitarian Appeal. This will be my sixth race for the appeal. It all started with the the Richmond Park July 10k on 20 July 2025.

After months of extraordinary challenges delivering aid in Gaza, DEC charities and their local partners are now scaling up their work delivering desperately needed food, water, medical care and so much more.

Famine was confirmed in Gaza in August, and every day has been a struggle to find essential supplies. People have been dying from starvation and malnutrition. Safe and sustained access for humanitarian aid has never been more urgent.

In Lebanon, the ceasefire agreement at the end of last year meant some of the people displaced by conflict could return to their communities and start to rebuild their lives. Months on, many still have no home to return to and are cut off from basic services.

DEC charities and their local partners are working tirelessly to support people in unimaginably difficult conditions. Each day brings new and unexpected challenges, and they are constantly adapting their work to deliver whatever aid they can.

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