This woman built a children's home in rural Nepal. Today, she lives there with her growing family — which includes her husband and 54 children, including her biological daughter. They've come up with some creative solutions to deal with being quarantined.
New Jersey native Maggie Doyne is seeing firsthand the toll that the Covid-19 pandemic is taking on women and children in rural Nepal.
In Surkhet, a district in the country's Midwestern region, Doyne's nonprofit serves vulnerable children and their families through a school, a women's center, a safe house, and a children's home."Our front gate gets swarmed with women and families asking for support," said Doyne, the 2015 CNN Hero of the Year."I've never seen anything like this. So many mothers struggling and scared, children are hungry.
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