The most famous Frenchman in history was born at Ajaccio, Corsica on 15 August, 1769. Consequently Napoleon Bonaparte was not, in fact French. He was, though, a French subject as a result of the ceding of Corsica to France by the Genoese in 1768. His family was upper-middle class. His father Carlo was a political […]
Airlines chip inNow Mother’s Homes were coming up every where on the globe proving how the world needed help. Mother had to travel a lot. Train journey was time consuming. Air travel was very costly.The frugal Mother fretted on the expenses incurred on her air travel. It was a big drain.So, she wrote to the
As Mother Teresa became talk of the town, in newspapers and magazines she drew more media attention. BBC London also learnt about the charity work done by a blue bands saree clad nun. The details of Mother’s achievements impressed and amazed BBC bosses. So, Malcolm Magridge was assigned the job of shooting a documentary on
Mother’s Manila Home, was situated in the Tondo slum area. The people there suffered mostly from T.B. The complete cure for the disease was difficult as it required nutritious diet which the poor could not afford. The Charity home could provide medicines only.Later, it was arranged that the patients would be supplied one meal at
The exemptions to Mother from Foreign Exchange Regulations helped her open Homes in other countries as well. The biggest beneficiary was another Asian country Phillipines, a Roman Catholic nation. So, that country had natural expectations from Mother Teresa.The economic and social condition of that country was similar to India. There poverty and diseases were as
Jains had set up a charity organisation at Jaipur named ‘Mahavir Handicapped Help Centre’. One of its noble activity is providing artificial legs to needy free of cost. For that purpose they had set up workshop to produce artificial limbs.Mother Teresa praised the works of the organisation and remarked, “There are large number of handicapped
As Mother’s fame spread people used to come to meet her from far off places. Once, a Swiss Banker came to see her. That person was a big braggart.He could talk about his fortune, banking wizardry, his aided institutions, his stature as a tall money lord, the social respect he commanded and his limitless generosity.Perhaps,
One Mr. Chatterjee was a richman of Calcutta. He used to frequent Mother’s Home ‘Nirmal Hridaya’ where he tried to be useful by playing with children and teaching them letters. Whenever possible he would help Mother financially as well.One day, his darling grandson fell ill. It was a serious malady. An immediate operation had been
As Missionaries of Charity was growing fast and earning international fame, more and more volunteers were joining the mission to become Sisters. They included foreigners. Mother Teresa was very motherly to the Sisters as she knew that those girls had come to her leaving their homes and dear ones. The Missionaries of Charity must become
Mother Teresa’s search for a place to put up terminally ill patients was still on. She badly needed one as it had become her wont to pick up sick from footpaths and roadsides.The problem had become acute. Mother had no money for the rent of a big roof. In sheer desperation she decided to try
The monsoon had arrived. Rains were coming down off and on.On one such morning, Mother and Sister Agnes saw a heap of rags lying on the wet foot path on the opposite side. On closer examination they discovered that the heap infact was a sick woman.Mother and Sister hired a rickshaw and took the woman
By and by Mother Teresa was getting some support and cooperation from others besides the monetary help. It is the story of fifties. She still was far away from being able to take up large projects.She was still operating from her two room Moti Jheel space.One day, a family abandoned a woman at her door
Missionaries of Charity then grew fast. More and more Sisters joined it as its dedicated service to the poorest, the sickest, abandoned and the orphans earned it fame. It went on adding new branches and homes as donations kept coming at healthy rate.The time was passing at its natural pace. A lot of things were
Mother Teresa was feeling that she would need help as her work was gaining momentum and she was more determined than before.She remembered that there used to be a girl in her class when she was a teacher and then principal of St. Mary High School of the Convent who was unusually enthusiastic about social
In the month of February 1948 Mother Teresa shifted her own residence.She had found a small room at 14, Creek Lane on the third floor. The house was owned by one Mr. Michael Gomez. Mother Teresa had not much to fill the room with.All she had was a wooden box with little inside namely, a