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Portrait of a Hero: Pushpa Basnet

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Pushpa Basnet, the 2012 <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/02/world/cnnheroes-show/index.html'>CNN Hero of the Year</a>, was shocked to learn that many children in Nepal had no choice but to live with their incarcerated parents behind bars. So she started a day care program for many of these children and opened a home in Kathmandu where dozens of them can <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/15/world/cnnheroes-basnet-nepal-prisons/index.html'>live a more normal life</a>.

Pushpa Basnet, the 2012 CNN Hero of the Year, was shocked to learn that many children in Nepal had no choice but to live with their incarcerated parents behind bars. So she started a day care program for many of these children and opened a home in Kathmandu where dozens of them can live a more normal life.