Hi! My name is Diggy, I am nine years old and I live in Connecticut in the USA but come from England.

 My friends, Charlie, AJ, Cam and Gigi, adopted an elephant for me for my birthday. Elephants are my favourite animals and I would like to help protect them.

My elephant Bondeni lives at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya and I read all about their work. They look after orphaned elephants until they can go back into the wild. They also have teams which help stop poaching, take care of injured elephants and try to keep them and their habitat safe.

I would like to raise money to help the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust so I decided to do a sponsored ski. I will try to ski 500km in the French Alps over Spring Break this year. I think this will be hard but I hope I can do it!

I would really appreciate your support and sponsorship and so will the elephants and the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

Thank you very much. From Diggy