Mother Teresa

How did a young girl from Albania, armed only with compassion,

become world-renowned and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Even when Agnes Bojaxhiu was a little girl in Albania, she had a big heart. She longed to
make things better for people, and she wanted to live in India, where she knew there was
sickness and poverty.
When she grew up, Agnes decided to become a nun and dedicate her life to helping
people in need. As a nun, she took a new name, Sister Teresa, and a new job teaching
near the poorest area of Calcutta, India.
She had made her dream come true but wanted to do much more. So she asked for
permission to start her own group of nuns. Her group would go right into the slums and
take care of the very poorest and sickest people.
Sister Teresa started orphanages and schools for children in need, and treated every child
as her own. She also opened hospitals for people who couldn’t afford medical care.
People started to call her “Mother Teresa,” and many were inspired to support her or join
her efforts.
But Sister Teresa’s big heart demanded she do even more. She personally walked the
slums of Calcutta, comforting the people there. She would sit down next to people, hold
their hands, or take their faces between her hands and look at them with love.
She even did this with lepers (people suffering from the painful and often contagious skin
disease called leprosy). Sister Teresa touched the people no one else would touch - the