Mother Theresa was born in Skopje in what is now Yugoslavia on August 27, 1910. Her original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her father, who was of Albanian descent, ran a small farm. At the age of twelve, while attending a Roman Catholic elementary school, she recorded that she knew she had a vocation to help the poor. She decided to train for missionary work, and a few years later made India her choice. At the age of eighteen, she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with a mission in Calcutta. After a few months of training in Dublin she was sent to India, where in 1928 s

From 1929 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1946 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she started an open-air school for homeless children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming from various church organizations, as well as from the municipal authorities. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work, and on October 7, 1950, she received permission to start her own order "The Missionaries of Charity" whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. Today the order comprises some one thousand sisters and brothers in India, of whom a small number are non-Indian. Many have been trained as doctors, nurses and social workers, and are in a position to provide effective help for the slum population as well as undertaking relief work in connection with such natural catastrophes as floods, epidemics, famine and swarms of refugees

Her main purpose of founding all the missionaries was her belief in the true action of love. She did all her charity works with humility, simplicity and sacrifice which led her to the path of success. Her charities did not only provide help for the poor, but they made a difference in people’s lives. She imparted apostolic work through bible study, Catholic action groups and caring for nursing homes. Her medical care for the lepers gained so much recognition and also the adoption of children who were physically and mentally incapacitated. Educational services were also offered by teaching the people simple knowledge on crafts, sewing and after-school programs. Most of all, relief services were very much appreciated wherein they provide all the daily basic need of poor families (Vardey 116).

he took her initial vow as a nun (“Mother Teresa”).

Because of her vow of poverty, any money that Mother Teresa received was used to establish missionary centers and to continu

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