Maura Healy
www.tomaura.com
President/Director
Maura@helpchf.org

Born and raised in Ireland, Maura spent many years as an Elementary School Teacher before moving to the U.S to pursue a career in music.

Her love for children, and a heartfelt belief that Education is a passport to opportunity and choice, fuels her Soul’s passion to work with the Foundation, which works to provide an education for the orphaned Children of Nepal.

Tom Healy
www.tomaura.com
Director, East Coast
Tom@helpchf.org

Born and raised in Queens, New York. He is a retired professional athlete and a Vietnam veteran. Tom has been a professional singer/musician for most of his life, entertaining across the United States as well as abroad for the last 25 years with his singer/musician wife Maura. Tom wrote the theme song for the Foundation which sums up his reason for being involved. Below are the words:

Lighting the Orphans’ Path
Sharin’ the heavy load
Makin’ a shiny highway
From the dark and dusty road
Doin’ it all together
Like the earth, the moon, the sun
Doin’ it all together only One
Only One, only One
Doin’ it all together only One.

Vona Tansey R.N.
www.vonatansey.com
Vona@helpchf.org

Vona is the Field Coordinator working with the children in Nepal. She has spent much time over the past years living in India and Nepal. When asked to share a few words on why she is working with the Foundation this is what she said, “If I have no shoes and you give me shoes, will that increase my happiness? I believe it increases my gratitude. That you took the time to care and consider my need and presence me in your heart, even for a moment, that is my joy-my happiness. This is the gift I want to share with the Children of Nepal. As a child growing up in Ireland in the 60’s “yes” I had shoes, but what lingers in the memories of my heart are those moments of true caring.“

Mark Lynn
Director West Coast
Mark@helpchf.org

Based in Denver, Colorado Mark is the CMO for Jet Companies a Colorado based VC firm with interests in Real Estate, Finance and Media. He has traveled all over the world and spent time in Nepal. After his initial experience he felt that he wanted to help. He will act as the director of west coast operations and the director of marketing for CHF.

Krishna Lohani
Director/Nepal
Krishna@helpchf.org

Krishna Lohani is a former lawyer and owns a Trekking Company in Nepal. Krishna has been working to help the hungry children who live on the streets of Kathmandu for a decade. When asked why he wants to work with the Foundation, Krishna said that he is motivated by the poverty and the fact that only 52% of the children are enrolled in school. Many children are hungry and live on the streets, which reminds him of his own difficult childhood on his family’s farm in Nepal. “My parents had 8 children and we lived in a small village. For dinner we shared a pot of rice. If you didn't want that, you went hungry. Education was nearly impossible since children had to walk many hours over difficult terrain to get to class” Eventually, Krishna and his older brother Shankar started a local school in his valley.” We did this so that the children could get an early education and would not have to make the long journey until they were older, maybe eight or nine years old. I want to get as many orphans as possible into the School of the Little Angels in Kathmandu, the best school in Nepal”.

Mike Downey
Marketing Director
mike@helpchf.org

Mike Downey, BSC Ohio University 1999, also attended The University of Denver's Business Management school. He has over 12 years experience managing businesses and overseeing their marketing departments. Mike currently works for Play Coed, LLC., a national recreational sports and social entertainment company. He has worked with hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies in the realm of sales and marketing and he has launched a marketing campaign and Web site for Save Our Youth, a 501 (c) 3 Nonprofit Foundation.

Mike oversees Web development and Marketing for The Childrens Himalayan Foundation.