name some reformers and their work?
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SOCIAL REFORMERS OF INDIA
MOTHER TERESA
As above said we came to know the feeling of her for poor, disabled and needy people’s .The great lady was born on August 26, 1910 at Skopje, Macedonia, named as Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was a Roman Catholic religious sister. Her parents’ names are Nikolle Bojaxhiu and Dranafile Bojaxhiu. She completed her education from Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham (1928 -1929) & Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
At a very tender age of 12 years she felt a calling to a religious life for first time. At the age of 18 years Anjeze Bojaxhiu decided to become a nun and she joined the Loreto Sister of Dublin. Here she gets the name Sister Mary Teresa. After working there for several years she travelled to Darjeeling, India. She went to Calcutta; there she was assigned to teach girls of Saint Mary’s High School. This School was dedicated to teach girls from the city’s poorest Bengali families. After working here for 6 years on 24 May, 1937 she took on the title of “Mother” as a custom for Loreto nuns and thus became known as “Mother Teresa”.
In August 1948, she left the Loreto Convent and wandered out. She took 6 months basic medical training and contributed her whole life to the untouchable, unwanted, uncared and, unloved people of Calcutta.
Social Service:
Mother Teresa devoted her entire life in serving the needy and poor people of society. She begins her mission in India (Calcutta), 1948. She succeeded in bringing the people of different religions and castes to help needy and poor people of India.
Lower caste and untouchable person who were not touched or treated by doctors or vaidya and died due to lack of medicine and care by their love ones. After seeing the situation of city’s poor people she decided to open a school and also established a home for the persons those are rejected by their families due to untouchable’s diseases. In 1950 she opened ‘The Missionaries of Charity’ only with 12 members.
She took care of the poorest of the poor, the sick and the dying persons. Mother Teresa and members of her mission went out into the city streets and picked up the dying homeless person. They would clean them, feed them and serve them with all the necessities of life so that they could spend their last days or hours in dignity. She made 20 missionaries home for street children.
For her lifelong self-less service for the weak and downtrodden she was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and Bharat Ratan in 1980. At the age of 87 on 5 September, 1997 she died in Kolkata due to various old age problems.