Mother Teresa Humanitarian

Humanitarian: a person actively engaged in promoting human welfare.

Mother Teresa is a humanitarian because of her labor towards human welfare. Teresa is one of the most well known humanitarians because of her dedication to teaching young children, helping the poverty, and her bravery to do what's right.

One of the ways Mother Teresa worked towards human welfare was helping young children get a education. Most of her time teaching the young, was while she was a sister of Sisters of Loreto. Sister Teresa was in charge of teaching children who couldn't afford an education, at a school called St. Mary's. Slavicek describes Sister Teresa’s feelings toward teaching kids at St. Mary's: “Teresa was grateful for the opportunity to offer her services where she knew they were both desperately needed and deeply appreciated” (31). While at St. Mary's Sister Teresa was sometimes allowed to go out and teach kids on the streets. Teresa believed this was a call from God, she had said it was a call within a call. Her beliefs had lead her to leave the Sisters of Loreto. Sister Teresa was now Mother Teresa, she focused on teaching young kids that

Mother Teresa will be known as a humanitarian for her bravery. Sister Teresa was very happy while being with the Sisters of Loreto and when she had left, she said, “To leave Loreto was my greatest sacrifice, the most difficult thing I have ever done” (Qed in Tucker). Teresa knew that leaving the Sisters of Loreto was a good choice, but it was very hard, everyone she knew and loved was there. Gray makes it clear that it was hard for Mother Teresa:

Sister Teresa, who had lived all her life among people she loved and who loved her, now found herself alone and among strangers. She was very, very lonely, but she knew that this was the work she was meant to do