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🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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0:00.0 | Maggie Doin's decision to postpone college and work with refugees in India transformed her life and the lives of many others. |
0:09.3 | Her story has been captured through the lens of filmmaker and partner Jeremy Power Ridgemble. |
0:15.3 | Here's Maggie and Jeremy's brief but spectacular take on family. |
0:20.3 | Growing up in New Jersey, my parents were a little bit off the beaten track with the no TV and the no Internet. |
0:29.6 | I was pretty lucky. I had everything in the world from a soccer team to play on to a really good public school to go to. As I was graduating |
0:39.6 | in 2005, everyone was going to college, college, college, college, college. And kind of at the very |
0:45.6 | last minute, I signed up for a gap year. I ended up in the northeast of India and I was working in a refugee |
0:53.6 | region. |
0:55.0 | It felt somehow easier to stay |
0:59.0 | and take on something that was hard and challenging |
1:03.0 | than it felt to just turn away and go back. |
1:09.0 | I moved to Nepal, learned the language, found my co-founder, Tope. |
1:12.7 | Okay, this is Tope. Hello. |
1:15.3 | I know that life. What is the hungry life? What is the freezing life? And what is the hard time? |
1:23.1 | Topp was from this region in Karnali of Nepal. He'd grown up an orphan and he had moved to India as a child porter when he was 10 years old. |
1:32.3 | He was working with refugees and migrants from his community in India. |
1:37.3 | And when we met, instantly connected, and he was like, |
1:40.3 | I want to go back to my home village. |
1:42.3 | I want to go back to my region and give back to kids like me. |
1:45.3 | First, we listen. |
1:50.9 | 95% haven't not foot enough. |
1:55.5 | We made the decision to move away from the scratch-the-surface Band-Aid approach |
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