In the nature of my job I have had the fortune to meet some amazing students from a wide variety of schools and countries - the Cedar Group this week have completely blown my mind with their whole approach to the challenges set before them. Their dedication to see through the completion of the projects they have been fund-raising for has been stunning. Perhaps even more impressive is the way that each student has interacted and worked with the residents over the past few days. The girls demonstrated an incredible level of maturity, understanding and genuine affection towards a group of often mis-understood and ostracised members of our society. The development of the animal enclosure and a multi-sensory room will offer the residents of the group homes in Kyustendil further opportunities and experiences that are a million miles away from where they were three years ago in the now closed instituition in Gorna Koznitsa. The end results are spectacular and testimony to the relationship between ISZL & the Cedar Foundation - but essentially it was driven by this group of amazing students. It truly is an honour to be able to be a part of it.
Stuart Byfield
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