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A 23 Year Old Mother of 30

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It is not unusual for high school graduates to take a year off to "find" themselves before starting college. And that's exactly what Maggie Doyne intended to do. At age 18, she strapped on a backpack and headed for the South Pacific Islands to start her trip around the world. Several months later, she traveled to a remote village in Nepal, where she felt a deep sense of belonging - a sense of home. Distressed by seeing so many working children, many of them orphans, she decided to sponsor the education of one child. Soon, one became five, then ten, and Maggie very quickly realized that she wanted to build a home where these children could live. In five short years, this 23 year old has built a home for 30 children, as well as a primary school for 230 children. Listen to Maggie's story and find out the dream she wants to realize in her lifetime.
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Learn more about Maggie's work through the BlinkNow Foundation. Now that she's a year older, she has 40 kids and is building a high school!
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Reflections (119)

Marji GreenSpring
I also fell in love with Nepal. I did volunteer work at a school and with a organization that
put street children in school. Over 20 years later one child now a young man picked me up in his
car from the airport. I learned a lot from him about his journey and what happened to other children I knew. I would like to help fund your work. I no longer travel that far.
Jugita
Thank you so much.....Maggie,I want to visit your village,here is my email jugitaghose@gmail.com
chad harper
Maggie, I would like to visit your village. I work with kids in Kenya and Nicaragua and plan to do a similar thing. i would like to come and volunteer with you and learn from your process. Here is my email hiphopsaveslives@gmail.com
Sandra Schemmer
Youth, energy and enthusiasm. Does she know about Room to Read.org? They might build a library for her school.
It''S a story similar to Maggie's that became a big success. Get in touch with them. Send them this video.
Gail
Thank you, Maggie, for your heartfelt, hard work and dedication to this vital issue, especially the education and empowerment of women as we work for the betterment of humankind;) In addition to well-spoken and engaging storytelling, you are gifted with an intrinsic sense of Mahatma Gandhi's "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" (or, for younger generations, Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror;). You are inspiring and beautiful through and through, I'm so grateful and happy to know you are in the world!
Jayant
At the age of 60+ I feel like leaving everything and DO anything something for anybody somebody without anything. Start without anything and God will fill it with Good things around. Hats of to this YOUNG GIRL - no MOM of most affectionate kids in her world. God bless you. Please let me know her contact details and I will explore the possibility of helping her the way she wants.
John
What an AMAZING young woman. Such an inspiration of what can be accomplished. I am sharing of FB & Twitter with great enthusiasm! www.compassionsolutions.com
Sheila
She is an inspiration and a role model ! Bravo.
Mariana R
“Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!”
― Allen Ginsberg
Lenny
What a gal!!!!
ad rovner
thank's.

how can i contact maggie?
Nischal
I left my country in search of better opportunities !! and you went to my country to find the opportunity !!! (as you said, the happiness, the heaven and the paradise) ! what an irony !?

I see hundreds of young ladies with their partners enjoying in clubs and beaches here, and you are serving some of the the poorest orphan kids in another part of the world! God bless you and give you more strength to complete your mission! A lot of respect to you.
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