<p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p> <div><span style="font-family: arial;">In the summer of 2012, I am planning to go to Ladakh in Northern India on a trip organized by the Lotus Flower Trust and my school.&nbsp;<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">In the past the Trust has been involved in many charitable building projects in India and Winchester College has worked with them closely for the last four years, with students from&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Winchester being involved in the building of schools and an orphanage.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">The purpose of the 2012 trip is to assist in the building an extension to a nunnery, already begun by The Lotus Flower Trust in 2007. We hope to begin the building of &nbsp;a kitchen, a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">store room, 3 bedrooms and the installation of a water pump. The nunnery stands at around 5500m, set into the rocky mountainside; as well as the possibility of suffering altitude</span><br></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">sickness, there is, in addition, no road link to the nunnery and we will be carrying all building materials as a 'human chain' from the road; it will &nbsp;therefore be a very challenging&nbsp;task.The nuns have no money and exist by begging, while their main purpose is to take in orphans who have nowhere else to go. Before I set off I hope to raise &pound;1500, to do this the team (25 of us) and I are swimming, running and rowing the distance to Ladakh from Winchester (10,540 Km). I am also contributing money earnt from jobs from the holidays. Any money raised will go straight to building project. I would appreciate any support you are able to give me.</span> <div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thank You Very Much</span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>