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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 an important truth: the power to change the world exists within all of us.
© 2022 Harper Horizon (Luisterboek): 9780785240303
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 22 maart 2022
4.9
Biografieën
Read by the author.
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 an important truth: the power to change the world exists within all of us.
© 2022 Harper Horizon (Luisterboek): 9780785240303
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 22 maart 2022
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Debbie
25 apr 2022
Prachtig, persoonlijk en ontzettend inspirerend. Ik volg Maggie en BlinkNow al heel wat jaren en ken het verhaal achter deze dappere, liefdevolle vrouw, haar familie en haar organisatie, maar dit boek heeft mij toch enorm verrast. Het vertelt de levensreis van een nieuwsgierige jonge vrouw die alles wil doen, en doet, wat haar hart haar ingeeft. Een aanrader dit boek!
Dorien
4 apr 2023
Wat een prachtig boek!! Ik heb genoten van haar schrijfstijl en haar voorleesstem. Heel mooi dat ze het zelf heeft ingesproken. Bereid je voor op een boel emoties.
Margot
18 jul 2023
Mooi verhaal. Fijn en oprecht voorgelezen. Ik kon de emotie voelen. Eerlijk verhaal
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