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Mother Teresa In our world, there are many people who work to achieve justice. Most of those heroes do not think about themselves, they only think about others, and how they can improve their world and their society. Every one of them has their own way to help the people around them. They spend a lot of effort, money, time and for some even their life to make the world a better place for others. Some of them use their position to help people; others do not have anything except their strength and their time, so they decide to use what they have to help anyone in need of it.. Those people do not want to be a famous person, or gain money. If a regular person wonders why anyone would do this? They may not understand the goals behind …show more content…
Her name was Agnes. Her father died when she was eight years old. After her father’s death, she became very close to her mother. Her mother taught her how to love and help others. Once, her mother told her she should never eat alone, but instead share her food with others. Once, a little Agnes asked her mother who were the people eating with them? She responded, some of them are relatives, the rest is just other people. As she grew Agnes became interested in missionaries. At age seventeen, she responded to her mission as a Catholic missionary nun. After that she changed her name to Teresa. She moved to India, and learned to speak both Bengali and Hindi fluently, and started teaching geography and history at Saint Mary’s high school, in Calcutta. Mother Teresa recalled later, she knew that she wanted to give back to the poor people, but she did not know how to get started at the …show more content…
She responded, they have the right to live at least one hour as a human and to help them to do that was enough for her. After suffering with health problems like; heart, kidney and lung problems, Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87. She was a good example of a person who helps others with a strange power of love, She made a lot of difference in people 's lives. She started helping the people around her, but when others saw how she served a sick and poor people as she treated her family, they became a volunteer with her to help who are in need. She taught the people that you can start with yourself, do not wait for others to help whom are in need. She worked to give the poor people their right to live as a human. She did not treat the people depend on their race, nationality or their religion. She treated everyone like as treated her brothers and sisters. She left everything behind her to send a message to all the world this message is “God is love” There is one who loves you, and he accepts you. She believed that she was an instrument in god’s hand to help those people who do not have anyone to think about

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