This document summarizes the life and work of Mother Teresa. It describes that she was born in 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia and founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Kolkata, India to care for the poor and sick. The order grew from 13 nuns to over 4,000 nuns worldwide. Mother Teresa established homes for the poor and sick, including children's homes and homes for lepers. She received numerous awards for her humanitarian work, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She stepped down as head of the order in 1997 due to failing health and died in Kolkata later that year at age 87.

1. BRANCH : CIVIL ENGINEERING
SEM - II
SAL ENGINEERING AND
TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

2. Group Members Name & Enrollment no.
 CONTRACTOR SHILA (151260106036)
 JAIN MAYURI (151260106013)
 LASHWANI NIKITA (151260106020)
 MANKAR NIKITA (151260106021)
 SHAH REEMA (151260106033)

3. THE DYNAMIC PERSONALITY :-
MOTHER TERESA

4. Early Life....
• She was born on 27th
August 1910.Her real name
was Agnes Gionxhu
Bejuxhiu and she was the
youngest child of Nikola, a
politician, and Drane
Bejuxhiu in Skopje in
Yugoslavia.

5. 1. HOMES FOR THE POOR
2. WORK WITH THE POOR
3. HELP THE INDIAN SLUMS
4.MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY
Dynamic Identity
“LIFE IS CHAIN OF TROUBLE ,BREAK IT”

6. Homes for the poor
• 1952 – opens Nirmal
Hriday [pure heart] for the
dying.
• 1955 – opens Nirmal
Shishua Bhavan [
immaculate heart] for lost
children or children's
home.
• 1957 – opens Shanti Nagar
[city of peace] a home for
lepers.
• Her order became well
known for this work!
“IF YOU CAN’T FEED
HUNDRED PEOPLE
THEN FEED JUST
ONE”

7. Working with the poor
• On September10th 1964 she got the calling
to work with the poor. She began missionary
work with the poor of Calcutta. She replaced
the loretto habit with a simple white cotton
chira with a blue border.
• In 1948 she took Indian citizenship and
opened her first school in Motjhil to serve
the homeless and starving. It was difficult at
first as there was no money and she had to
beg for food and other supplies. She did
some medical training in Paris.
“YESTERDAY IS GONE,TOMORROW HAS NOT
YET COME; WE HAVE ONLY TODAY ,LET US
BEGIN”

8. Missionaries of Charity
• October 7th 1950 – Vatican permission to set up Missionaries
of Charity, to care for the hungry, the naked, the homeless,
the crippled, the blind and lepers.
• She started with 13 nuns now there are over 4,000 .

9. She taught her nuns to live very
simple lives, to pray constantly and
to see the face of Jesus in every
person, especially the poorest of the
poor.
Many girls she had taught at
the Loretto convent school
joined her in her work. They
too, dedicated their lives to
Jesus in serving the very
poor. In 1950, Sr Teresa’s
order became known as the
Missionaries of Charity.

10. Where she helped
• 1982 – siege of Beirut • 1985- Ethopia
• 1986 - Chernobyl
• 1988 - Armenia

11. Awards that she got
• 1962 - Padma shri award
• 1971 - Pope John XXIII peace prize
• 1975 - Albert Schweiter international prize
• 1976 - Pacem in Terris award
• 1978 - Balzon prize
• 1979 - Noble Peace Prize
• 1983 - Order of Merit
• 1985 - Medal of Freedom
• 1994 - Golden Honour of the Nation [Albania]
• 1996 - Honorary citizenship of USA
• 1998 - Pope John Paul II begins the process to make her a saint.
• This process is still going on !
“GOD DOESN’T REQUIRE US TO SUCCEED,HE
ONLY REQUIRES THAT YOU TRY”

12. Failing health
• 1983 – 1st heart attack whilst visiting Pope John Paul II.
• 1989 – 2nd heart attack, fitted with a pace maker.
• 1992 – goes into hospital in USA for pneumonia and heart problems.
• 1993 – In May she broke 3 ribs, In August she suffers from malaria and
in September she had surgery for a blocked blood vessel.
• 1996 – In April she fell and broke her collar bone and in August she
suffered malarial fever and more heart problems.

13. The final days
• March 13th 1997 – she stepped
down as head nun and is
replaced by Sister Nirnala.
• September 5th 1997 – She died
of a massive heart attack in
Calcutta at the age of 87.
• Her funeral was on the 13th of
September 1997. She was given
a state funeral
“I ALONE CANNOT
CHANGE THE
WORLD,BUT I CAN CAST
THE STONE ACCROSS
THE WATER TO CREAT
MANY RIPPLES”
# MOTHER
TERESA

14. Pictures of her funeral

15. THANK YOU VERY
MUCH

“Keep smiling, help
people & love your life”