Congratulations to Stan Platt OBE! Stan has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Stan is a long-standing and highly-respected member of the British community in Romania. He and his wife Camelia do fantastic work for visually-impaired people in this country, providing equipment like Braille text books and, most recently, starting Romania’s first ever guide dog programme.
Stan and his team have been a tireless campaigners for the rights of people with disabilities in Romania, and he is a tireless fund-raiser too, organising the annual Caledonian Ball and Burns Night celebrations in Bucharest to raise funds for his charity ‘Light into Europe’.
There are so many Great Britons doing great charitable work in Romania. It all began in 1989 when the world’s media was focused on Romania and its orphanages. But when the media moved on, many British organisations stayed behind to work with Romanian colleagues over the last two decades in supporting vulnerable groups.
We have charities active in areas such as social services, paralympic sport, support for cancer sufferers and palliative care. I am delighted that HM The Queen has chosen to recognise them in this Diamond Jubilee year with this special award to Stan Platt and ‘Light into Europe’.
