Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated her life to the sick and hungry. Her simple message was "The poor must know that we love them". Her followers regarded her as a saint, but Mother Teresa believed she was only doing God's work. In the poverty and slums of Calcutta, thousands of sick and dying were given shelter. Thousands of children were beeing cared for and given foster parents, and over two million sick and nearly fifty thousand lepers were treated by mobile dispensaries and special clinics. But for Mother Teresa, the Peace Prize was simply a gift to the poor.

 

                   ---------  quoted from Nobelprize.org