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Dear Mary:
For the time we have worked together, you have inspired me. I know we shall meet soon and looking forward!

All the Best!

Michael Aboneka

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Leaving does not mean leaving - not separation;
We cross our path again and again on the way to make our world peaceful
We cross our path on the way to keep sky-wind, mountains-sea and the earth beautiful.
We cross our path where nature surrounded by green forests to make life cool
We must make life beautiful
We must cross our Path again and again

All the best
Azad

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Dear Mary,

From the first time we met, there was something distinct, the fire for justice and the calmness. To me you were both fire and ice. The long discussion we had before I joined the ActionAid family bore Africa’s participation at the negotiations for a Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights, a subject that we both were passionate about. After I joined the AA family, we worked closely together. You were always available (even on informal communication e.g whats app) just to help, give direction and interact as well as brainstorm on ideas. I trust that the work you started here at AA will continue to bear fruit and that you are only going for a bigger purpose. They say we meet to part and part to meet. I wish you well in your next task. Tinotenda nebasa ramakabata (Thank you for the great work you did).

Darlington, Zimbabwe

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Wishing you all the best in your new move and we appreciate the good job and great contribution in this federation. It was great engaging with you as a feminist, Women's Rights  and Policy Advocate. Will certainly miss you sister and colleague.
Hope to see you soon and best wishes for a successful career journey you are undertaking from here.
Hope our paths will meet somewhere, sometime.

Cheers
Josephine  and entire AARwanda team.

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Dear Mary,
From the very first introduction, working with you has been a learning trajectory, and even as you leave there is still alot to learn from you, may you continue with the same spirit.
Wishing you all the best

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Best wishes in your next step and really hope our paths can cross again. I will miss the great conversations we had in the office. All the best.
Angela.

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Thank you very much for all your work, for your support, kindness and...super huge patience with missed deadlines!!

It was a great opportunity for me to see your work F2F in Tanzania, in 2019 summer, on shrinking political space. Really a wonderful experience that I'll never forget. Thank you for all the opportunities you have given us.

I am sad that you are leaving, and really hope that you will enjoy a lot your new job environment, and that they will take care of you as you deserve.

Wish you all the best of luck!

Jara (AA Spain)

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Dear Mary

Thank you for the time we shared office both at 2nd and 4th floor. You remained an ardent supporter of women and more so wanting to know what was happening around the social movements. I would confidently say that out of your engagement AAIK work has found space at the global level. Looking forward to more collaborations
Susan, (Your current landlord)

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It has been a pleasure working with you Wandia.  Your collaboration and contribution to AA will be felt.  Thank you for your guidance, I learnt a lot from you. Will miss your thought-provoking questions and responses to different issues. Wishing you all the best in your new adventure. This is not good-bye ,I am sure our paths will cross.  Ruth

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Dear Wandia,
It's sad that you are leaving.
I enjoyed working with you in the IP2 Team.
I learned a lot about shrinking civic space from you.
Although sad to see you go I'm happy that you got yourself a great job.

Wishing you all the best in this new role and I know that you will keep shinning.

Best wishes,

Julie Juma

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Dear Wandia,

On behalf of us (Dorte and myself), I wanted to let you know what a pleasure its been to work with you over the last four years.

Its been great to collaborate with a fellow feminist and we have admired your calmness against the many work deadlines, process and deliverables! Thank you.

We have appreciated the ability to brainstorm with you and you have become a friend to us.

We will surely miss you and all your many contributions especially your ability to link local advocacy with regional and global advocacy, ability to see opportunities and the relationships you have nurtured with counterparts across the AA Federation and Beyond...

We wish you the very best in your new adventure. All the best to your family and yourself and look forward to remaining in touch.

Warm Regards,
Dorte & Sesheeni

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Dear Mary,
I am very happy for you, for the exciting new work opportunity, and for how you will continue to excel and discover new areas of interest. They are very privileged to have you. It is sad to admit now, as it approaches, your departure. Thank you for all your guidance to navigate on human rights spaces and bodies. For including and maintaining me and colleagues in the team informed about the incredible and always creative and innovative work about what is the pillar of this organisation: rights and voices. Thank you. Best wishes,
Francisco

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Though our collaboration has been brief, I have very much appreciated your efforts to inform and include me on all Feminist for Binding Treaty developments. Your dedication to coordinate our joint AA advocacy efforts and to include AA offices in the process will surely be missed!
Thank you for all your hard work around civic participation and the F4BT coalition. I am wishing you all the best during your next steps and hopefully our paths will cross again.
Best, Anna (AA Netherlands)

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I’ll surely miss the moments we’ve had, mostly the genuine discussions and your readiness to share your experience at professional level and real-life. Wishing you the very best in your next chapter and hopefully our paths will cross again in the future.

Best wishes,

George Ng’ang’a

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Dear Mary,
I has been a pleasure working with you. We have learned a lot from you and we will surelly miss you!!! We wish you all the best.
Don't forget you have sisters and colleagues in Guatemala.
Geisselle, Patricia and Laura

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Dear Mary Wandia, It is sad to see you leave ActionAid. I have not worked for long with you but for the short time I have, I really enjoyed the conversations in the office. I wish you all the very best in you next phase and pray that our paths cross again.  Pascaline

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Dear Mary,
I want to wish you all the best in your new role! Knowing you and your incredible commitment, I am sure you will absolutely rock in it. Just to say thank you for your amazing work, we will have a Mary Wandia shaped gap to fill, you will be much missed! I hope our paths will cross again, warmest wishes to you,
Roos

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Mary you are special. I will miss the times we talked and laughed and discussed issues. Your sense of humour will be missed greatly. May the small world reconnect us in the way it knows best how to.
This is a special prayer that you find favour in all you are set to do as well as joy and fulfilment in all. Thanks for being a true friend.
Lilian M (Nbi)

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Dear Mary,
Thank you very much for all your amazing work these years. I would have liked to work together more than we have done, but I have always been impressed by the exchanges we have had.
I wish you all the best for this new chapter of your life and hope our paths cross again soon.
Best wishes,
Maria Ron Balsera

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You will be badly missed within ActionAid Wandia, wishing you all the best, and I know you'll keep spreading feminist wisdom wherever you go. Best wishes, Lee (AAUK)

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You are such a big loss to ActionAid, Wandia. You do not only write about feminist leadership and women's rights, but more importantly, you practice what you preach. I hope you have fun out there. Hugs and see you hopefully soon.
Dinah

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We say farewell again, Wandia! But only in this space! 

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We say farewell again, Wandia! But only in this space! 

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You are a true sister and comrade, it's very sad to see you leave. But we know our paths will cross again very soon. I am hoping this won't just be in the virtual space. We have known each other, collaborated and strategised since 2006 and we will continue to do so wherever we go. So this is definitely not a goodbye but till we meet again. Once again, I will miss your astuteness and insight. Stay in touch, Wandia, I'll need you! Keep your feminist brilliance alive! I would wish you the best for your new role, but I know for a fact that you will be a star.

Lots of love and solidarity, Nee

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Dear Mary Wandia,

Please, let me alert you that I may be overwriting!!

On my first ActionAid Ghana travel abroad, which was also my first IP trip to Nairobi, Kenya, I met Mary Wandia, I call her the special person! As a first timer or newcomer, I was surveying the conference room and the people! I fortunately sat on the same table to discuss group work with Mary. She was so special! I have a brand of people I call special. I mean she is heavily loaded with wisdom, knowledge, humility, and civility. Infact, Mary showed a good understanding of the topic under discussion. Her readiness to share her depth of experience was graceful, humble and attractive! Mary knows her stuff, but is not puffed up!!...So I secretly asked one of my colleagues from Ghana, who is this special woman, pointing my finger openly at her? Others may have have misjudged or misread my actions...But anytime I notice a special person, I am unable to hide my readiness to draw closer to learn! That's all! Although, I didn't get to learn more from Mary, what I tapped from her wealth of experience has honed my skills and ways of working. I am now also called the special person, because Mary affected me wit her especial nature. Mary Wandia, I pray that our paths cross again...and very soon! wishing you the best my special friend! and professional colleague! Do let me know your next stop after ActionAid!
John, the Prince from Ghana!

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Thank you for all you have done to strengthen our internal analysis and external impact on the importance of civic participation and rights. In these strange times, we have needed and appreciated this more than ever.

Wishing you the best of luck in your future ventures.

All the best,

Teresa

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C'etait une bonne opportunite d'avoir votre experience dans l'analyse critique du contexte burundais et dans le developpement des strategies d'actions pour y faire face.
Merci beaucoup!!!

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Dear Mary, it was great to meet you and learnin from you. you have been engaging on one of the most difficult thematic and you did well. all the best. stay blesssed. Nathaly-Senegal

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Hello Mary
I wish you stay longer, but your choice takes precedence. You have contributed greatly to the strategic programming and implementation process. Our civic participation process is taking shape with the infusion of people's movement etc. its been wonderful working with you and benefitting from your wealth of experience. I wish you all the best in all your endeavors. it shall be success all through
continue to grow graciously!
Suwaiba Nigeria

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Farewell Mary- Hope to cross your path again

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Farewell Mary- Hope to cross your path again

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Mary it was great getting to know you. Your soft spoken voice always made me do the extra in workshops and back home. You were indeed an inspiration - hope you keep that attribute in your new engagement. All good things have an end but also a beginning somewhere else.  We will sure cross path again in the development arena. God bless and lead you through in all your undertaking in Jesus name.

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Hi Wandia,
Thank you so much for your dedication and support on civic participation and any other work of ActionAid. It's such a pleasure working with you. Wishing you goodluck on  whatever path you chose. The good memory will stay forever.  Best,
Rungtip (AA Thailand)

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It was great working with you.  You have such deep knowledge in GRPS. Go well and all the best.

From Betty (Zimbabwe)

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It is not possible to say shrinking civic space within AAI and not punctuate that with Mary in-between. t has been a great journey with you comrade.  Continue to shine!!

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It is not possible to say shrinking civic space within AAI and not punctuate that with Mary in-between. t has been a great journey with you comrade.  Continue to shine!!

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Joy Mabenge

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Mary, you are a star. Knowing you and working with you has been enriching for me. I sure will stay connected.

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Mary, you are a star. Knowing you and working with you has been enriching for me. I sure will stay connected.

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In sisterhood

Nkechi Ilochi-Omekedo

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Hello Mary,

It is not time to say goodbye but to appreciate having crossed your path and learnt from you. Your humility, determination, hard work, respect for diversity , innovation and creativity remains admirable. We will definately miss you but as one of those who believe in equality and feminist practices we will meet up somewhere and i can always find you. All the best with the next destination. Love and hugs from the Pearl of Africa.

Harriet

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Its sad to hear that you are leaving. You will be remembered for your passion and professionalism. Your incredible contribution to our work on Civic Participation in the last couple of years will continue to remain with the human rights defenders and people of concern we work with. I wish you well - Saani

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Hi Wandia. It is of course really sad to see you leave, but thank you for the incredible work you have done over the past 4 years! It has been such a joy to work with you. I am constantly impressed by your deep commitment to the work and  to ActionAid - you are always on top of every detail, always over-delivering, always engaging  with colleagues across the world in a persistent and purposeful way - ensuring that everyone truly feels that they are a dual citizen whose voice really matters, not just nationally but also internationally.  Thank you for catalysing the federation's engagement with Feminists 4 a Binding Treaty, for your work linking artists and activists, for raising the voices of frontline human rights defenders, for collating so much learning on shrinking space nationally and internationally, on electoral accountability and inclusive democracy. Your contributions will still be felt and remembered when you come back for your third era with ActionAid - be that in five, ten or fifteen years from now. I know for certain that you will go on to do further wonderful work  with others but please be assured that  you will always be welcome back at ActionAid! Take care, David

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Hi Wandia. It is of course really sad to see you leave, but thank you for the incredible work you have done over the past 4 years! It has been such a joy to work with you. I am constantly impressed by your deep commitment to the work and  to ActionAid - you are always on top of every detail, always over-delivering, always engaging  with colleagues across the world in a persistent and purposeful way - ensuring that everyone truly feels that they are a dual citizen whose voice really matters, not just nationally but also internationally.  Thank you for catalysing the federation's engagement with Feminists 4 a Binding Treaty, for your work linking artists and activists, for raising the voices of frontline human rights defenders, for collating so much learning on shrinking space nationally and internationally, on electoral accountability and inclusive democracy. Your contributions will still be felt and remembered when you come back for your third era with ActionAid - be that in five, ten or fifteen years from now. I know for certain that you will go on to do further wonderful work  with others but please be assured that  you will always be welcome back at ActionAid! Take care, David