some information about Mother Teresa in English for kids in hundred words
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Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her "call within a call" in 1946. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony.
In 1979, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In December 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4, 2016.
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Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia on August 27th, 1910. Her original namy was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu .Her Father owned a small fram .At the age of twelve she realised that what she wanted to do most of all, was to help the poor. She decided to train for missionary work and came to India at the age of nineteen to join the sisters of Loretto ,an Irish community of nuns with a mission in Kolkata.In 1928 she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1929 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary’s High School in Kolkata but the sufferings and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent wall disturbed her