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Peace Week Assembly Features Maggie Doyne

On February 5, Maggie Doyne spoke to Upper and Middle School students about her gap year and how it led her to build a school for children in Nepal.
On February 5, Maggie Doyne, founder and director of the Kopila Valley Children’s Home, the KV School, and Women’s Center, spoke to Upper and Middle School students about her gap year and how it led her to build a school for children in Nepal.
 
Maggie said soon after applying to colleges, “I felt a lump in my throat. I didn’t know who I was or what I was supposed to do.” She decided she would forgo college and take a gap year to travel around the world.
 
After visiting her friend’s village in Nepal, and witnessing the devastating effects of civil war, Maggie resolved to do something for the children of the region. She spent all of her “birthday and babysitting money” to buy a plot of land and then returned to the United States to raise more money to use for the construction of a children’s home.
 
Maggie said she knew she was meant to work with children when she saw a Nepalese girl and “knew we were the same, different, but the same.” Today, her home, Kopila Valley Children's Home, houses 40 children and her school, Kopila Valley Primary School, teaches more than 300 students.
 
Maggie Doyne will tell her story along with two other changemakers at our Peace Week evening program tomorrow, February 6 at 6:30PM in the Meetinghouse.
 
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