The inspiring Maggie Doyne (find her on X, Instagram, and Facebook!) returns to talk about the documentary, Between the Mountain and the Sky as well as co-founding the Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. The BlinkNow Foundation has also broken ground on the sustainable Children’s Village in Nepal.

For my friends in Martha’s Vineyard, there is the screening there on March 30th!

Maggie is co-founder of the BlinkNow Foundation and Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. At age nineteen, she used her babysitting money and worked with the local community to build a home for orphaned children in war-torn Nepal. In 2010, she and her team opened a school for five hundred of the region’s most impoverished children. Throughout the past decade, BlinkNow and Kopila have worked to deepen and grow the organization through grassroots community development efforts.

Her work has been championed by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Nicholas Kristof and the Dalai Lama, among others. The story of BlinkNow’s beginnings has been featured on The Huffington Post, VH1, MTV, and Fueling Young People to Change the World | DoSomething.org . Maggie was named Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year and was used as an example for her groundbreaking work at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. In 2015, she was named CNN Hero of the Year.

Maggie’s story carries a message of hope, love, and the possibility of how the smallest individual acts can spark huge world change. She believes that poverty, hunger, and violence will be alleviated when children are provided with their most basic needs and human rights—a loving, happy childhood, nutrition, and a quality education. She believes that this can be achieved during her lifetime.

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