Battling poverty in Nepal

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Doyne (centre) poses for pictures along with children from the Kopila Valley Children's Home, at Surkhet District, some 600 km west of Kathmandu. Photos: AFP

Maggie Doyne still remembers the moment that changed her life forever.

A chance encounter with six-year-old Hima, a little girl forced into manual labour to help her impoverished family, helped transform Doyne from gap-year teenager into a philanthropist on a mission.

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