As you are aware there were a series of natural calamities and disasters in the Asia Pacific region recently. There are thousands of families who have lost everything. You can help them with whatever little money you can. For this, the British Red Cross has launched an appeal to support emergency relief operations.

• Typhoon Ketsana slammed into the Philippines on 26 September, killing at least 240 people and affecting more than 1.9 million.
• On 29 September, the typhoon moved west to Vietnam.
• Typhoon Ketsana has also affected Cambodia and Laos.
• On 29 September, a strong earthquake followed by a tsunami hit the Samoan islands, in the Pacific. This was shortly followed by another earthquake on 30 September off the west coast of Indonesia.

Your small donation will support Red Cross National Societies responding on the ground. Please give what you can today to help families who have lost everything.

This is how your donation helps:

• £10 could provide three blankets for people left without shelter
• £25 could provide a family of five with food parcels for one month
• £35 could provide two families with kitchen sets to prepare food

CLICK here to learn more and to donate to British Red Cross.