I have decided to try and help some of the poorer people I used to work with in Bihar! Way back in 1994 I wanted to raise some money to find, and give treatment to, people suffering from leprosy. I decided to cycle the length of the river Ganges ( 3000km) and donate the money raised from friends and neighbours in my village, at my place of work and at my church. I had to learn to ride a bike with gears and several kilograms of luggage. I studied maps and practicing cycling up hills. My ride began on October 4th at Gangotri but first I had to walk to the actual start of the Ganga as it came out of the bottom of a glacier 4000metres up in the Himalayas. The ride ended at Ganga Sagar, where the Ganges meets the ocean, and  took me 12 weeks.   On the way I stopped at a leprosy treatment centre in Bihar for a week, went out to visit patients and learned about the treatment that completely cures a person of leprosy. I gave all the money donated to me to LEPRA, a British NGO, for the treatme