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EARLY LIFE

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• Mother Teresa (Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) was born in Macedonia on the 26th of August 1910.

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• At the age of nine her father died upsetting her happy and comfortable life

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• When she was eighteen she moved from Macedonia and joined a group of Irish nuns called the sisters of loretto

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• She soon started her religious training and finished her final prayers in 1937

CHARITY WORK

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• From there mother Teresa took an intensive medical training course

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• Her first task was to school children who could not afford education

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• Mother Teresa soon was being offered financial support to fund her work and volunteers

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• Soon she had a group of people to assist her in her work. They were called the Missionaries of Charity

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• In 1957 her group expanded their work running nine primary schools

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• She then proceeded to open an orphanage for abandoned children

RECOGNITION

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• Mother Teresa’s group kept getting bigger in the 1970s

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• Soon she started winning awards for her work

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• Some of these awards included
• Pope John XXII peace prize and a generous donation from Joseph Kennedy Jr.

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• By 1979 Mother Teresa and her group had more then 200 operations over 25 countries

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• It was in this year that she was awarded the Nobel peace prize

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• Sadly Mother Teresa passed away on the 5th of September 1997

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• However, her legacy has been continued

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• Mother Teresa will never be forgotten