Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who spent her life serving the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 and opened homes for people suffering from hunger, poverty, tuberculosis, and leprosy. For her humanitarian work helping the poorest of the poor, she received numerous honors including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Mother Teresa passed away in 1997 at the age of 87 from heart failure after spending nearly 50 years serving the sick and disadvantaged in India.

1. Mother Teresa and the kind of life she lived 

2. Things about her August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Skopje, Macedonia Nikollë and Drandafille Bojaxhiu. Albanian descent

3. Pictures of her life

4. The awards she won for the things she did 1962 - Wins first prize for work among the poor: Padma Shri award 1962-Magsaysay Award 1971 - Receives the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize 1972-Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding 1979 - Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1980-Bharat Ratna 1985 - Awarded Medal of Freedom. Leo Tolstoy International Award

5. Sickness  1983 - Has heart attack 1989 - second heart attack 1992 - Enters hospital for treatment of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. 1993 - breaks three ribs, hospitalized for malaria, undergoes surgery for blocked blood vessel 1996 - breaks collarbone, suffers malarial fever and left ventricle failure, receives honorary citizenship on November sixteenth. September 5, 1997 - Dies of a massive heart attack

6. What she did 1950 - Founds the Missionaries of Charity. 1952 - Opens Nirmal Hriday ("Pure Heart") 1953 - Opens orphanage. 1957 - Begins her work with lepers 1958 - first facility opens in Drachi, India 1971 -uses $25,000 to build a leper colony.

7. Why did she do what she did? Love. Jesus said, ” What you have done unto others you have done unto me.”

8. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, 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”