Studying abroad for the first time is always exciting, especially if you are just 16. But the experience was even more special for Laura Strazda, who came from Latvia to Excel English in London this summer, as she has cerebral palsy.

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Language school principal Christine Goodwin likes to help young people when she can. Since opening the Northumbria School of English, she has hosted a group of teenagers made homeless by last year's Italian earthquake, and a group of girls from the Shatila refugee camp in West Beirut.