Margaret, Friend of Orphans

Charles soon fell ill and went back to Ireland to regain strength. He died a short while later.

A few months later, Frances became sick and died. The life of an Irish widow in antebellum New Orleans was not easy. Single women threatened notions of sexual morality and social control. During this period, anti-Irish jokes were commonly published in the newspapers. To support herself, Margaret worked as a laundress for the St.

She became acquainted with the Sisters of Charity and volunteered her time to the orphans they cared for. She also contributed as much as two-thirds of her earnings to the orphans. In order to better care for the orphans, Margaret purchased two cows to provide milk.

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These two cows developed into a dairy herd of forty and a prosperous dairy business. She was often seen making deliveries with her mule-drawn cart. Her success allowed her to contribute a great deal of funds to construct a new and larger orphanage run by the Sisters of Charity. She also helped open St. Margaret's business endeavors did not end with the dairy farm. Most New Orleanians are unaware of her dairy business, but "Margaret's Bakery" remains known for the bread she distributed to orphans and other needy city residents.

Hers was one of the early "steam bakeries" in the South. Margaret was the second woman in the United States to have a statue erected in her honor. Citizens of New Orleans commissioned a statue in her likeness soon after her death in For more information, please see the "Margaret Gaffney Haughery" entry in Knowla.

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During that trip, she spent time volunteering at a children's home in northern India. While there, Doyne became friends with a refugee from Nepal and during a cease-fire in the Nepalese Civil War , went with her to visit her home village. In Nepal, Doyne met six-year-old Hima, who was barely surviving on the few rupees she earned by breaking stones in a dry riverbed and selling them. Doyne helped Hima go to school, paying for her tuition, uniform, and books, and expanded her efforts to help more children.

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With her money, and more funds from supporters worldwide, Doyne purchased land in the Kopila Valley. Top Malla, a Nepali that Doyne had met in India, joined her as a project partner. The Foundation is the sole provider of funding and is the only recipient of BlinkNow funding. The Foundation is an official c 3 organization with a US-based board. It has headquarters located in the United States and Nepal.

BlinkNow operates at the grassroots level of community and focuses on promoting sustainability and self-reliance in the Surkhet community.

Kopila Valley, Doyne's project funded by The BlinkNow Foundation, encompasses a school, a children's home, a women's center, a girls' safe house, and a health clinic with a focus in sustainability. Dissatisfied with the education her children were receiving and wanting to help other children in the community, Doyne opened the Kopila Valley School with students in Many are the first in their families to attend school. The school provides students with health care and food, and employs around 50 Nepalis, including teachers, staff, a principal, vice principal, health administrator, counselor and a health technician.

The curriculum supplements the Nepali national curriculum with additional teaching and learning in literature, art, theater, music and sports. Classes are taught in both Nepali and English, and stress creative and critical thinking. In , the school's 8th grade students took national examinations for the first time Nepal's District Level Examination.

The school receives over applications for places per year and places are offered on the basis of student need. As of , over children attend Kopila Valley School. Together with the help of Nepali caregivers, Maggie lives at the home and cares for the children.