Service
Although Mother Teresa began her service alone, she soon inspired many people to follow her and help those in need. Within a year of her stay in Calcutta she began to receive helping hands. “Many seemed to have been waiting for her example to open their own floodgates of charity and compassion” (Gutzelman). Many young women would come and help her, others helped by offering food, clothes, medical supplies, money, or buildings. In 1948, with the volunteers she had and after receiving Vatican permission she founded her own congregation, The Missionaries of Charity. Her congregation was to help those in great need and even though she was first concerned with the poor population in Indian, her congregation soon began to expand worldwide starting with only 12 members in Calcutta, and soon expandind with the rapid income of volunteers and donations. “Mother Teresa established an organization which would feed the hungry and poor, the naked, homeless, blind, crippled and abandoned. She made no disparity in taking care of people and everyone who had nowhere else to go [that] would come to the organization” (“Accomplishments of Mother Teresa”).
Having had founded and expanded The Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa was able to help more people in need all over the world. For example, thought her charity, she was able to become the first woman in India to set a home for the lepers, and to teach people that the disease leprosy did not spread through touch. Another example was that she was able to not only help the poor but also help the disadvantaged and disable people. Many times during natural disasters, her facilities became available for the victims, wherever they needed them. She not only cared about the poor in India but she cared about helping everyone around the globe.
Due to the lack of resources her congregation depended on donations and volunteer work, but mostly she relied on God. Despite all the non-ending work among the poor, she never gave up and always found strength in God and her prayers to keep on going. Her order of nuns despite the need of money “made it a principle never to ask for money, they came to rely on her personality to open the purses of the rich and the not-so-rich” (“Mother Teresa” Economist). Mother Teresa was able to peacefully persuade people to donate to her organization. She had Charles Keating, a banker and lawyer, donate one million dollars to her facilities after she talked for him on legal accusations, and the usage of a jet so she could visit the Indian reservations in Arizona. She also persuaded a government official of Ethiopia, on television, to give her a building for an orphanage. Even when she refused to move from a supermarket, where she had bought $800 worth of goods for her organization, until someone else would pay off, she did so in a peaceful way that she though the best to get things done and for people to care for others (“Mother Teresa” Economist) . She did this because she wanted other people to care for others, and to understand that charity was so simple to give.
Mother Teresa was a follower of God who always lend a helping hand and never asked for anything in return. Found in the article “Mother Teresa” in the online Encyclopedia of World Biography, “…she did not find it necessary to attack the economic or political structures of the cultures that were producing the abjectly poor people she was serving. For the primary rule was a constant love…” (“Mother Teresa” Encyclopedia of World Biography).
Having had founded and expanded The Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa was able to help more people in need all over the world. For example, thought her charity, she was able to become the first woman in India to set a home for the lepers, and to teach people that the disease leprosy did not spread through touch. Another example was that she was able to not only help the poor but also help the disadvantaged and disable people. Many times during natural disasters, her facilities became available for the victims, wherever they needed them. She not only cared about the poor in India but she cared about helping everyone around the globe.
Due to the lack of resources her congregation depended on donations and volunteer work, but mostly she relied on God. Despite all the non-ending work among the poor, she never gave up and always found strength in God and her prayers to keep on going. Her order of nuns despite the need of money “made it a principle never to ask for money, they came to rely on her personality to open the purses of the rich and the not-so-rich” (“Mother Teresa” Economist). Mother Teresa was able to peacefully persuade people to donate to her organization. She had Charles Keating, a banker and lawyer, donate one million dollars to her facilities after she talked for him on legal accusations, and the usage of a jet so she could visit the Indian reservations in Arizona. She also persuaded a government official of Ethiopia, on television, to give her a building for an orphanage. Even when she refused to move from a supermarket, where she had bought $800 worth of goods for her organization, until someone else would pay off, she did so in a peaceful way that she though the best to get things done and for people to care for others (“Mother Teresa” Economist) . She did this because she wanted other people to care for others, and to understand that charity was so simple to give.
Mother Teresa was a follower of God who always lend a helping hand and never asked for anything in return. Found in the article “Mother Teresa” in the online Encyclopedia of World Biography, “…she did not find it necessary to attack the economic or political structures of the cultures that were producing the abjectly poor people she was serving. For the primary rule was a constant love…” (“Mother Teresa” Encyclopedia of World Biography).