Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu

I look up to Mother Teresa of Calcuta: Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu commonly known as Mother Teresa

She was born in Macedonia on August 26 1910 into a catholic Albanian family. Her family had a lot of money. At five
years of age she made the first communion; It she was later confirmed and when she was twelve years old her vocation
would help others and devoted herself to religious life.

When she was 18 years old, she decided to travel to Dublin where she began to study education and joined the
congregation of Our Lady of Loreto and changed her name to "Teresa."

For almost twenty years she dedicated herself to being a teacher, but when she realized the deep poverty of India, she
decided to ask the Pope for special permission to leave the congregation of Our Lady of Loreto and dedicate herself to
take care for the poor people who inhabited the streets, and in 1948 she opened her first shelter.

In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity. She and her followers took care of the poor who were on the streets
of India, regardless of their age, their physique or their religion.

In 1964 he opened a shelter for lepers, and even convinced the Pope to open a shelter for the homeless in the Vatican.

She was elected as the representative for the United Nations Conference, and in 1979 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1982, she was chosen to be the intermediary in a conflict with Lebanon, but there were so many political interests
that her help was not very useful and she decided that she would remain on the sidelines.

After celebrating her 87th birthday, Mother Teresa had to be admitted to an intensive care center in Calcutta, where
she remained until she died in September 1997. For that moment, the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity
already had more than five hundred centers in a hundred countries.

I look up to Mother Teresa because her goal of helping "the poorest of the poor", and becoming a modern inspiring
example, in the palpable and living proof of how generosity, self-denial and surrender to others also make sense in
modern times.