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Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope

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Availability:In StockContributor:Maggie DoynePublish date:2022-03-22Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper HorizonISBN-13:9780785240280ISBN-10:785240284UPC:9780785240280Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Adoption & Fostering, Philanthropy & CharitySize:9.20 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC3BBFJBNS

Between the Mountain and the Sky shows us the goodness that is possible when a single person--regardless of age--takes action to help another and, in the process, changes the lives of hundreds.

Maggie's story begins in suburban New Jersey, in a comfortable middle-class family that supports her decision to travel the world during a gap year before starting college. During her travels, the trajectory of her life alters when she has a surprise encounter with a Nepali girl breaking rocks in a quarry. Maggie decides to invest her life savings of five thousand dollars to buy a piece of land and open a children's home in Nepal.

That home becomes Kopila Valley Children's Home, and eventually, the nonprofit Maggie launches, the BlinkNow Foundation, also starts the Kopila Valley School, which provides tuition-free education for more than four hundred students. Maggie and BlinkNow's work have been recognized around the world for their innovative, sustainable work.

However, this book isn't a how-to for fledging philanthropists or nonprofit founders--it's a coming-of-age story about a young woman suspended between two worlds, as well as the love, loss, healing, and hope she experiences along the way. And Maggie's inspiring, intimate tale shows readers an important truth: the power to change the world exists within all of us.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper HorizonISBN-13:9780785240280ISBN-10:785240284UPC:9780785240280Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Adoption & Fostering, Philanthropy & CharitySize:9.20 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC3BBFJBNS
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Maggie Doyne is the founder of Kopila Valley Children's Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. At nineteen, she used her life savings to build a home for orphaned children in war-torn Nepal. In 2010, she opened a s school for five hundred of the region's most impoverished children. Now thirty-two, Maggie is the mom and legal guardian of fifty-four children and the founder of the BlinkNow Foundation, which has expanded its programs and come to serve as a model for other sustainability projects and orphan care projects around the world. In 2015, she was named CNN's Hero of the Year. Her work has been championed by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof and the Dalai Lama, among others.

Publisher: Harper Horizon

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