A Life-Changing Decision

Maggie Doyne with some of the children at the Home.

At age 18, Maggie Doyne was set to leave for college in the fall. But before she even moved into her dorm room, she awakened with the thought that she needed to spend a year exploring before she started college. It would turn out to be life-changing.

So, Maggie set off and found herself in Nepal, among children who broke up rocks for a living, but without receiving any type of education. At first, when she noticed the plight of these children, her heart opened up and she started enrolling the children one-at-a-time into school ($7 per child). Her funds quickly ran out.



Then she got an even bigger idea - to do something that would help the children towards an even brighter future. So, Maggie convinced her parents to wire her her entire life's savings and she bought a piece of land for $5,000, on which was constructed the KOPILA VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOME FOR ORPHANS. Maggie was now all of 19 years old, thousands of miles from her home in the US, and not even with a college degree. But that never stopped her.

Eventually, she was able to establish the BLINK NOW FOUNDATION, which helps to finance the orphanage. By age 23, she had opened a school, which serves the children of the Surkhet area, now (three years later) numbering more than 300 children.

What can we learn from Maggie Doyne? Well, you're never too young to follow your dreams and when you see a problem, you can solve it with your own thinking and just a little bit of money. But you can never solve a problem, it you don't think it through and take action.

The vision that drives Maggie today.

This story came from here: http://www.communicategood.com/2013/07/talking-good-with-maggie-doyne/. You can also see a talk by Maggie Doyne and her response to some interview questions on the same page.

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