By Padraig O’Hannelly.
Hussein Al-Alak (pictured below) will run the Manchester 10k on Sunday on behalf of the AMAR International Charitable Foundation.
He commented:
“It’s the only charity in the United Kingdom that supports health, education and, more importantly, mental health programmes, in Iraq …
“You’ve got a lot of amazing causes [in the race] and it’s nice to be able to say: ‘This is what we’re doing at AMAR’.“
You can help AMAR in its essential work in Iraq by donating here.