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Could call home. for more than a decade in nepal in a small building she rented in a busy section of kathmandu, pushpa cared for and educated kids who had been living inside nepalese prisons with their parents because there was no one to care for them while their mothers and fathers served their sentences. pushpa's first butterfly home named so that children would grow wings and fly, was a safe haven for kids who had no safety net providing them health care and schooling. but pushpa felt the kids deserved more. >> my kids used to walk to the road. every time people use today to look at them ne...

She bought a plot of land. the property was high above the congested and poverty-stricken areas of kathmandu and a short walk from the children's school. >> kids should be close to the nature because all this childhood life they were spending in the prison, in a big ward. >> in 2015, the home that pushpa had long imagined was on its way to completion. four new structures were up, and construction was in full swing with all of pushpa's earnings and dreams invested in the project. and then, the unthinkable. >> suddenly what i hear was people were screaming, earthquake! >> on april 25th, 2015, a ...

So we have a kitchen and open dining hall. we have a garden. we have a solar panel, which runs the butterfly home with the solar. we have vegetable garden. defini definitely, the most important thing we have is love within ourself, you know? >> today, pushpa is 33 years old. she and her kids are stronger than ever and have plans to open their home to even more children in the future. >> so i think the stigma has changed. now, people say that, look at this kids, they have such a fortunate life, you know? they have so blessed to have a good education, good environment, good family and everything...

Old. she and her kids are stronger than ever and have plans to open their home to even more children in the future. >> so i think the stigma has changed. now, people say that, look at this kids, they have such a fortunate life, you know? they have so blessed to have a good education, good environment, good family and everything, you know? >> for pushpa basnet, the last 12 years of hard work has paid off. through her various programs, she has helped educate and care for more than 150 kids. she may be a cnn hero, but to her children, she's mother. and mother has no plans to stop. >> when someone...

>> my van was moving up and down. people were coming in the road, you know. i just jumped off from the van and i said, no, i need to go and save my kids, you know. >> more than 8,000 people were killed. hundreds of thousands were left homeless. entire villages were flattened. >> i could not even think anything. i was, like, this is it. it's the end of our world, and it is the end of our family. >> remarkably, all 42 of pushpa's children survived. in the days, weeks and months following the earthquake, pushpa and her kids took shelter under a tarp. pushpa learned that her new butterfly dream ho...