American Mother in Bud Valley

In the first semester of the

visit, students aged 17 to 21 years were supposed to gain practical knowledge from cultural rehearsals in their workplaces. For that, he had to go outside the walls of the classroom. On a first semester trip, her friend Hana offered to go to India together before college started. She arrives with Hana at the Garden School in Rishikesh, Ramana, on the banks of the Ganges in India, a shelter home for human trafficked, abused and neglected children during the Maoist armed war. Seeing the condition of the children, the teenager did not want to return to America. Her friend Hana returned to America and started studying at Cornell University. The young woman went to the service of abandoned, abused and abandoned children for a few months. She i.e. Maggie Doyne could not forget the love of Nepalese children. She starts the struggle to establish Kopila Valley School to provide free quality education to abused, orphaned, stranded children in Surkhet, Karnali state. It is the story of his hard struggle in establishing a school for children's education, love, care and protection - 'Between the Mountain and the Sky.'

Maggie meets Top Malla, who is employed at Ramana's garden to collect daily necessities. There he met Sunita, who also became his first friend. From which village in Nepal did she reach there? Didn't know anything. Maggie and Sunita decided to return to Nepal to find Sunita's village and returned to Surkhet. When they went to find Sunita's whereabouts, they saw the miserable condition of other girls in Karnali. In that connection, they decided to take initiative for the education of girls. The education system alone was not going to provide a long-term solution by collecting immediate expenses. As an alternative, Maggie felt the need to build a home and school for the children and called parents in America and asked for money. Upon hearing about him, his parents initially refused to give him. Parents bowed down before the holy service. Maggie sent the five thousand dollars that she had saved since childhood to study in Nepal. With that money, she bought a piece of land in Surkhet Valley for the illiterate children. The bud of the dream he saw started to sprout.

After completing various procedures at the District Administration Office, Surkhet, the name Kopila Valley remained, where she wanted to plant fragrant flowers for underprivileged children. In the middle of the land she bought, she planted a hundred-leaf sapling, waiting for hope to bloom. In Kopila Valley, at first one, then two, the children began to smile.

The name of the school was kept, but the building had to be built there. He had no money to build the building. In 2007, she arrived in New Jersey, America, offered to sell the American garage with her mother, ran hard to raise two thousand two hundred dollars, asked for help.

Maggie had to teach as well as treat sick children who came to Kopila Valley. At the same time, she reached London to treat the helpless girl Juntara. Unfortunately she fails to save him. On her death, she writes a long letter full of love to Juntara. It shows how much she sacrificed for the helpless children. Maggie has written in the book the pain of taking the girl who did not even receive normal treatment to London for treatment but was unable to succeed.

In October 2010, after Nicholas Kristof, a journalist of the New York Times, wrote a long article, Kopila Valley was not only discussed, but also received support. After the establishment of the non-profit organization Blink Now in 2007, the way was opened for the construction of the Kopila Valley School building. How did the building for the underprivileged children come to be after getting help from Blink Now? Maggie wrote in the story of struggle.

The bud planted by Maggie at the age of 19 for the education, health, protection and bright future of children who lacked basic needs is currently blooming into a beautiful flower for those children, where more than four hundred children are enjoying the fragrance of Kapila Valley. She had to raise funds for the establishment of Copila Valley School, she went to New Jersey to do it.

Maggie had rescued Hima, who was making a living by crushing pebbles from the Veri river, and enrolled her in school. More than 400 people have reached the service which started from Hima and started providing health treatment to helpless children and women. He feels heavenly joy in providing protection, education and housing for Nisha, the first girl child living in Kopila Valley. Hima was sold as a domestic servant. Maggie's unprecedented labor and sweat have not only flowed to provide a good education to her unborn children, and arrange food and living arrangements for a quality life, but an ocean of love has gathered.

Ravi, a child growing up in Kopila Valley, is treated in America in 2014. Shortly after returning from treatment, he drowned in a swimming pool and died. His death is an indelible wound for Maggie. She expressed deep grief over Ravi's death. 'The sky begins to fall above us, lighting him up with golden hues then the darkness drags him away. I pray for light, but there is none', she wrote, 'The sun is gone. And, I will also go.'

Maggie remembers Ravi when he won CNN Hero in 2015. On one side was the joy of being a CNN hero, on the other was the pain of losing Ravi in ​​the same month of December. At that time she became very emotional. The face of Kopila Valley School was lit up when CNN Hero became the winner, but when Ravi lost, it was completely dark. Ravi was a beautiful bud raised by himself. When that bud fell, Maggie felt a deep wound in her heart. She wrote in her memoirs that she tried hard to heal that wound. In 2017, the first batch from Kopila Valley School was ready to study in the university. Maggie jumps for joy when a student there gets a full scholarship to an American university. A dream of Maggie, a mother who gave karma even though she did not give birth, was fulfilled at that time.

Maggie and Jeremy get married in 2017. A year later, in 2018, the couple's daughter Ruby Sunshine was born. Ruby was the daughter of a mother of about 400 children. Even when her daughter was born, she mourned the children who came under the protection of Kopila Valley, but died due to various reasons.

In Kopila Valley School, which was started by protecting a girl child, currently 500 students are getting free quality education from pre-school to 12th grade with health care and educational guidance.

Maggie wrote in 'Between the Mountain and the Sky', 'Nepal gave birth to beautiful children, and made me a mother.'

This book is a collection of a mother's love, the pain of losing a child, treatment and hope, which reflects the spirit of service from the heart.