Maggie Doyne was born on c 1986 and is an American humanitarian who co-founded an organization that built a children's home, women's center and school together with the community in Surkhet, Nepal.
10 Facts About Maggie Doyne
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Maggie Doyne is the author of Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope and subject of the documentary film of the same name.
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In 2005, following her high school graduation, Maggie Doyne took a "gap year" to travel with the organization LeapNow.
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In Nepal, Maggie Doyne met six-year-old Hima, who was barely surviving on the few rupees she earned by breaking stones in a dry riverbed and selling them.
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Maggie Doyne helped Hima go to school, paying for her tuition, uniform, and books, and expanded her efforts to help more children.
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Maggie Doyne used $5,000 she had saved from babysitting to help even more children and phoned her parents at home to send her the money.
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Top Malla, a Nepali that Maggie Doyne had met in India, joined her as a project partner and Co-founder.
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Kopila Valley, Maggie Doyne's project funded by The BlinkNow Foundation, encompasses a school, a children's home, a women's center, a girls' safe house, and a health clinic with a focus in sustainability.
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Dissatisfied with the education her children were receiving and wanting to help other children in the community, Maggie Doyne opened the Kopila Valley School in 2010 and it has 400 students.
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In 2022 Maggie Doyne published Between the Mountain and the Sky, A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, Healing and Hope.