In the coming days we will end another successful year of the Student Leadership Project of Partnership 2000 Beit Shemesh - Yehuda plains.
This year the program went through a few changes, as we placed a stronger emphasis on the connection to the community and the development of local leadership.
Before we send out the annual report, we would like to share with you a heartwarming letter that we received from one of the participants in the group:

Dear Friends from Partnership 2000,
I have just returned home after our last meeting and suddenly understood that that's it, I won't see you again. I won't see this amazing group of people any more, the group that influenced me so much during the past year.
Suddenly I am feeling sad and decided to write to you about what I am feeling.
I don't know how I might have seemed to you, but… I am a religious woman that until this year was living in a very closed ultra orthodox society.
I always  believed that it was important to get out of your own familiar circle and to meet other people but I didn't bother to do anything about it. All of a sudden I joined the student leadership project. In the beginning, it was really strange for me. I will never forget some of the meetings where I said to myself - how can one think that way??
Slowly the year went by and I must say thank you to every one of you.
Thank you so much for exposing me to an amazing world.
A world full of identities, cultures and different opinions! Because of you I now have other friends aside from myself. You have no idea how much this project influenced my life this year and I am sure it will continue to influence me more and more as I grow up and become exposed to more things.
That's it friends, I will be happy to keep in touch, and wish you all success on your exams and b'ezrat hashem in your lives.
I love you and hope to meet at many happy occasions (Don't forget go come to my wedding!).
Sincerley,
Pnina