MOTHER TERESA

Mother Teresa went to live in Calcutta, India. Calcutta was full of poor people. She helped poor and homeless people. Mother Teresa worked in hospitals and schools and also built her own hospital for poor people. She was like a mother to them that is why why they called her Mother Teresa.

All her life she helped other

people. In 1979, she got

rewarded with a special gift for

her good work. She gave all of

her money to the poor and

homeless people. She was and

still is very famous. She died

when she was 87 in 1997.