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Mother Teresa was awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her good work. The
winner, chosen from among fifty-six nominees, including US President Jimmy Carter. She is the sixth
woman in the world and the first citizen of India to get this highly esteemed prize since it was
instituted in 1901. Born of Albanian parents in what is now Yugoslavia, Mother Teresa come to India
fifty yenrs ago. Thero she taught Goography in a convent school. In 1947, she gave up her teaching
career and moved in to the slums of Kolkata to serve God among the poorest of the poor. Later she
became an Indian citizen. Today, after thirty years of sustained efforts, the order, which is best known
for its homo, has grown up to be a very big organization - running schools, hospitals, youth centres
and orphanages around the world. Mother Teresa is a frail-looking but energetic woman who talks little
of herself. She is regarded as a saint by her followers, she always tells them humbly what she does is
actually God's work.​

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Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.