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Ms. Büsra Süer

Project Coordinator - Assistant Manager “Bütün Çocuklar Bizim
Derneği - All Children are Ours” İstanbul – Turkey

Message: “During those days of uncertainty, our true global aid to
pandemic is Solidarity! We met a lot of heroines who gathered around
and spread the word, Solidarity. As “All Children are Ours” Association, even though we can't
hug children physically, we try to reach them with goodness. We thank all the heroines around the
world and hope to see more equal and more valuable world!”

Ms. Hellen Swales

Deputy Major for the Upper Hutt City Council, Chair of the
International Women's Caucus, Chair the New Zealand Defence
Force Gender Equality Network Steering Group; Chair of Whare
Tiaki Wahine Refuge (Maori Women's Refuge); Chair the Regional
Climate Change Forum for the Wellington Region; Immediate Past
President for Business and Professional Women NZ (BPW NZ)

Message: “I have always been an advocate for women and girls and
decided in 2010 that I want to effect real change for Women and Girls and to do this then I had to
stop “looking through the window” and “go through the door for change”. So here I am through the
door for change working to make a difference by: - “Developing women’s professional and
leadership potential at all levels” I am determined that our efforts will lead to “Equal Participation
of Women and Men in Power and Decision-Making Roles”.

Mr. Phil Clothier

Senior Cultural Transformation Advisor “Barrett Values Centre”

Phil Clothier from “Barrett Values Centre he got to know Manjola during
the summer, during the lockdown period and realized that she was
someone who has got such passion in and a heart and wants to make such
a big difference in the world. He thanked her for all she is doing in
Albania. He started with the quote from Anne Frank, “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait
a single moment before starting to improve the world”. He said - “We don't have to wait for the
governments or the elites to do this for us, we can start to improve our own lives, our own homes,
our own communities, our own organizations. Today, we don't have to wait. When I connected
with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, I realized that there's really only
two jobs left for us on planet Earth right now. One is to live in harmony with nature, the planet and
all life on earth. And the second is to create conditions for every human being on Earth, to have
the opportunity to experience well -being contentment and peace. And I have to tell you, that

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