Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. She dedicated her life to serving the poor and sick in India by opening hospices, homes, and mobile medical clinics. For her humanitarian work helping suffering people in India, Mother Teresa received the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was admired for her selfless service in helping those without homes or family support.
2. Who was Mother Teresa?
• Teresa of Calcutta, commonly known as Mother
Teresa born on August 26 of 1910 and died on
September 5 of 1997.
• She was a Roman Catholic Religious Sister and
missionary of Kosovo Albanian origin who lived for
most of her life in India.
3. Mother Teresa
• At the age of 18, she decided to enter religious
life, went to Ireland and joined the Loreto Sisters
of Dublin, she went to India to teach at a girl's
school.
4. • Mother Teresa had a religious experience in which
she heard the voice of Jesus tell her to stop
teaching and dedicate her life to the poor of India.
5. • . After leaving her convent with church permission,
she went to the Calcutta slums in 1948, where she
started a school and a home for the dying.
6. What did she do?
• Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of
Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation,
which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and
is active in 133 countries.
7. • She lead hospices and homes for people with
HIV and AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup
kitchens, dispensaries and mobile clinics,
children's and family counselling programmes,
orphanages, and schools.
• Between 1950s and 1960s she began an
orphanage, leper colony and various clinics.
8. Why was she called Mother
Teresa?
• When she joined the Irish order Sisters of Loreto,
she was given the name Sister Teresa after Saint
Therese de Lisieux. She became Mother Teresa
after making her final promises.
9. Mother Teresa get the 1979
Nobel Peace Prize
• In making the award the Norwegian Nobel
Committee has expressed its appreciation of
Mother Teresa's work in bringing help to suffering
humanity. This year the world has turned its
attention to the plight of children and refugees,
and these are precisely the categories for whom
Mother Teresa has for many years worked so
hard.
10. Conclusion
• We really admire Mother Teresa, she was a veer
good women that helped a lot of people without
asking for anything, she support people that don´t
have a home or the support of their family, the
Nobel price she won, she was really deserve it.
