‘A huge thank you’

In July, we announced that we were supporting the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) with their coronavirus appeal.

The DEC would now like to extend a huge thank you to everyone at Royal Mail for helping their fundraising reach a staggering £20 million so far.  

The DEC consists of 14 UK member charities, who are experts in humanitarian aid. Their immediate focus is to:

• provide families with clean water, soap and information on keeping themselves safe;
• provide frontline medical and aid workers with equipment and supplies to care for the vulnerable and sick; and
• ensure families get enough food to prevent malnutrition, particularly amongst children.

Royal Mail recognises the importance of helping the most vulnerable communities and doing what we can to protect them from Covid-19. We are supporting the appeal by providing a PO box free of charge to allow people to make postal donations to the coronavirus appeal. You can read more about this here.

Because of your support, DEC member charities are able to work closely with local partners to support the most vulnerable people, by giving families the means to protect themselves with clean water, soap and vital hygiene information.

You are also supporting frontline medical and aid workers by helping provide protective equipment, medical supplies and training.

Thank you for helping to protect people in fragile states and refugee camps as they face Covid-19.