Tribute to Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. was born in Yugoslavia on August 27, 1910. She lived on a farm. Agnes was attending a Roman Catholic elementary school when she decided that her vocation would be to help the poor. She decided to train for a missionary job. A few years later she chose to go to India. At eighteen she joined the Irish nuns, the Sisters of Loreto. After training in Dublin for a few months she went to India. In 1928 she took her initial vows as a nun.

1929-1948 Mother Teresa became a teacher at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta. The suffering she saw outside the school had such a big impression on her that in 1946 she got permission from her superiors to leave the school and help the poor in Calcutta.
She started an open air school for homeless children without any funds. Voluntary helpers soon joined her. She also received financial support. On October 7, 1950 she received permission to start her own "Missionaries of Charity" which cared and loved the people who nobody else cared for. Mother Teresa began fifty ongoing projects in India. Her projects include helping people from the slums, children's homes, homes for the dying, clinics and a leper colony. Her project have spread to other countries such as Africa, Asia, Latin America, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland and the United States.
For all the work Mother Teresa has done she received the following awards: 1971 The Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, 1972 The Nehur Prize for International Peace and Understanding, 1979 The Balzan Prize for Promotion of Peace and Brotherhood in Nations.

Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997.She was a very loving person,therefore the world should be thankful for what she has done. She was a great person and deserved the awards.