Maggie Doyne was named CNN's 2015 Hero of the Year on Tuesday, November 17 at an awards ceremony in New York.
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Maggie Doyne, a New Jersey woman who used her babysitting savings to change the lives of hundreds of Nepalese women and children, was named CNN's 2015 Hero of the Year.
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Maggie Doyne was named CNN's 2015 Hero of the Year on Tuesday, November 17 at an awards ceremony in New York.
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"Our first priority as an organization is to keep a child with their family if at all possible," Doyne said. "In order to come into the home, you need to have lost both parents, or in some rare cases have suffered extreme neglect, abuse or have a parent who's incarcerated."
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