Mother Teresa Research Paper

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” Mother Teresa traveled around the world to find people in need. She opened houses for lepers, babies, and for the homeless. Mother Teresa taught for 20 years in Saint Mary’s high school in Calcutta, India. Because she shared her life with the poor, the sick, and the hungry, she started schools and homes for homeless children and she also helped the poor for no funds, Mother Teresa is an influential bolster.

To begin with, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje Macedonia. Agnes chose the name Teresa after of Liseuix when she took her vows as a sister of Loretta. She had five siblings but unfortunately just three survived. She was the youngest of 3 children. At the age of nine years old her father died. Mother Teresa attended a public school in Skopje focused on her religious vows. By the age of 12, she made up her mind that her vocation was aiding the poor. Mother Teresa became interested in missionaries nun and joined an Irish order, the sisters of Loretto. When she was eighteen, mother Teresa left home to join a community of Irish nuns. She received training in Dublin, Ireland, and in Darjeeling, India, taking her first religious vows in

1928 and her final religious vows in 1937.
In addition, Mother Teresa’s first assignment was to teach.

She taught for 20 years in Saint Mary’s High School in Calcutta, India. She received a divine calling from God “to serve him amongst the poorest of the poor.” Pope Pious XII asked for her permission to leave her duties as an independent nun. She said “to help the poor and better their lot” was the only thing she spent her money on. Mother Teresa said by feeding and helping these people “I am feeding and helping Jesus, for that is what he commanded, to help the poor. When I was hungry did you feed me, when I was thirsty did you give me a drink, when I was cold did you clothe

me?”
Also, Mother Teresa found help within a year sister Nirmala became one of Mother Teresa’s earliest disciples in the Missionaries of Charity. It was aiding everyone from AIDS sufferers and lepers to orphans and earth quake victims. Sister Nirmala learned of Mother Teresa’s works and transferred to Roman Catholicism. Mother Teresa learned basic medicine and went into the homes of the sick to treat them. She found men, women, and children dying on the streets that were rejected by hospitals. She opened a room called missionaries of charity so they could help helpless people. She and the other nuns devoted their lives to meditation.
Furthermore, in 1952, Mother Teresa opened Niirmal Hriday also known as pure of hearts, a home for dying. Because of her opened heart she picked a woman half eaten by rats and ants took her to clean her. The homes for dying where for people that had no place to live and were brought and were given medical treatment. She also opened a home for babies, the home for babies where for kids whose parents would not take care for them or left them on streets. Mother Teresa started a colony for lepers where they could build their own houses and could work on their fields. She said “The biggest problem wasn’t the disease but the lack of love and charity, the feeling of being unwanted”.
In conclusion, because of her achievements she was awarded the Nobel peace prize as the world’s greatest champion of the downtrodden. She shared her life with the poor, the sick, and the hungry; she started schools and homes for homeless children. She spent most of her time with poor, traveled round the world to find people in need. Mother Teresa taught for 20 years in Saint Mary’s high school in Calcutta, India. She opened houses for lepers, babies, and for the homeless. Mother Teresa was an inspirational woman and she helped the poor. She inspires me to love and care for people in needs.