Mother Teresa was.a small, quiet nun. She lived for ed and helped poor people in the streets of India. She was very famous for her work. She died in 1997, but people remember her today. Peopleinmany countriesloveher. This is her story. Penguin Readers are simplified texts designed in association with Longman, the world famous educational publisher to provides step by step approach 1 the joys of reading for pleasure. Each book has an introduction and ‘octensive acuity material They ae publaed at seven lees fom Exsystarts (200 words) to Advanced (000 words). 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They had a good home because her father did well in his work. Then her father suddenly died. Agnes was only eight years old. Her sister was fourteen and her brother was leven. Things were difficult for Agnes’ mother, but she ‘was strong for her children. She worked and did well. She loved the children, and they had a happy home. There were some poor people near theit home. These people did not have much money for food, and Agnes's mother was good to them too. She was a Christian = a Catholic ~ and God was very important to her. She prayed to God every evening with her children, and they alll went to church every week At the church, there were stories about Christian missionaries in India and poor African countries. TheseShe said goodbye to her family. She was eighteen years od people lived for God. They went to India and Affica because they wanted «© bring God’ love to poor people there. Some of the missionaries in India Skopje. Agnes loved hearing about the work of these missionaries. She started to think, ‘What am I going to do. for God?" men fiom She wanted to live for God, but how? Did she want to be nun? Did she want to live only for God? She prayed for answers. Afier five years, the answer came to her. She wanted co live only for Him. She wanted to be a nun in Inia, Her mother was very unhappy about this, She loved hher daughter and did not want to sy She went to her bedroom and stayed there all day, But after a day and a night, she came out and said to Agr goodbye to he ‘Put your hand in His hand and walk with Him, ‘On 25 September 1928, Agnes said goodbye to her hhome in Skopje. At the station, she said oodbye to her family. She was eighteen years old, and friends and he she did not see her mother or her sister again, ‘To India She went by tain and boat to Ireland. Ther the home of the Loreto nuns, She wanted to be a Loreto nun because many of them worked in India she went to Agnes stayed with the nuns at Loreto House in Dublin \e for six weeks. Then she was on a boat again ~ t0 India, She was now Sister TeresaThese days, you can get fom Irehnd to India very duickly, but in those days people were on the boat for seven weeks. It went from Ireland to Spain, then across the Mediterranean Sea to Suez in Egypt, down the Red Sea, across the Arabian Sea to Sri Lank: up to Calcutta. in India. From Caleutta, she went by tain to Darjeeling. Calcutta was a big place with a lot of noise, but and th Darjeeling was quiet and beautifil Young Sister Teresa did not know much English, but she was a good student. She was friendly too and she often smiled. She was very happy there. After two years, her English was good, and she started to teach children in the ‘nuns school. Then she moved to one of the Loreto nuns’ schools in Calcutta, Its mame was Loreto Entlly, a big school for sir, Many of the girl were from poor families. The school days staced carly in the morning, but the nin days started before that. Every morning, the nuns pryed for a long time. Then they worked in the school in the’ morning and the afternoon. They worked in the evening too, because many of the girl lived at the school After 3 long day, they prayed again and then went to bed. ‘The nuns did not have holidays. They did not listen to: music or go shopping, They did not see their families. Buc they were happy because they lived for God. They were happy and strong. all day because they remembered His love every morning, Sister Teresa liked teaching, and she was good at it. She was a teacher at Loreto Entally for twelve yeats, and then, fiom 1944, she was the head teacher for four years 4 Daeeling was quiet and beauThe Streets of Calcutta Calcutta (oF Kolkata) today bas 15,010,000 people. In the 1040s it was a very big place t00, and many new people arrived. every year. The people were Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists. Caloutta had beautifl buildings: big hotels, offices, banks and houses. Many writers and famous people lived there But Caleutta had-iome big problems. A Jot of people were very poor. They did not have any money, and they lived in slums — bad places with bad houses, Many people did not hay x home. They lived and died in the The years 1943-46 were very bad years for Calcutta, There was not much food, and it was very expensive. Poor families did not have money for this expensive food, and in those three years about 3,000,000 people died. Every day there were dead people in the streets, Mother Teresa stanted to help the poor people in the slums, but this was dificule for her. SHE was a-nun, and fauns did not often go out into the streets. Many nuns helped poor people in schook, big food kitchens and hospitals, bue nuns did not usually go out to poor people in slums. She prayed to God for an answer to her problem. On 10 September 1946, she was on a train fom Calcutta to Darjeeling, and the answer came to her. The answer was, ‘Go and work in the slams with the poor people This was new work for a nun, and the head of the Catholic Church in. Caleutta stid, "Wait! He wanted to think about it first. Mother Teresa wanted to start quickly é Many people lived and died inthe streetsbut she waited two years. Then in August 1948, a leter came fiom him: he was happy about her new work. Loreto Enally was het home, and the nuns were her only frends, But she ssid goodbye and moved into a small oom near a shun ‘The Blue and White Sari Indian women usually dress in saris, There are beautifil, expensive sats, and there are poor saris for poor women, Mother Teresa dressed in a poor blue and white sari because she wanted to work with very poor people. “Today, there are many nuns in these blue and white saris, but on her first day in the slum, Mother Teresa was alone. She was only one small woman, with no helpers and no money. How did she sat her new work? First, she prayed to God, and then se walked into-the slum. There she talked to poor children. Many of them lived in the street. They ad no home, no family and no school, She stated to teach them in the street. The children liked her, and the day afer tha, a lot of children came to hher new ‘school’. Then they came every day ‘One day, there was a poor old woman in the street. She ddd not have a home and she was very ill: The doctors in the hospital did not want her because she was poor and very old. She was a dying woman. She did not have a family; she was alone. People in the street did not want to go neat her. But Mother Teresa went to her and talked to her. She washed the woman and stayed with her. The 8 Mother Teresa dressed in a poor blue and white sariwoman died, but she did not die alone, She died with a friend, with her hand in Mother Teresa hand, There were often dying people in those streets. Mother Many poor street people did not have any food. Teresa aske her. Some people were angry and did not help people for food for them. Some people helped For two months, Mother Teresa worked alone, It was a diffcule ime for her. Then two of her Indian stude fiom Loreto Entally cme to her and worked with h Afi all had blue and white saris, and they had a name The Mis schools and they opened strect clinics, These clinies were two years, there were twelve nuns with her. They aries of Charity’. They worked in street not hospitals, but they were a big help for people in the dams, People in Calcutta started to talk about Mother and her Missionaries of Charity. Many people anted to help her and to give money to her. In 1952,she Tere government of Calcutta gave her a big building, and started a home for dying people chere After this, che nuns started a big home for children Many p children in Caleuta did not have a home of a father, At the nuns’ new children's home, there 1 them, and love too, was food and a bed For ten years, Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity worked only in Calcutta. Every year, there were new nuns. After ten years, they started to work away from Calcutta too, They opened new homes for dying peopl homes for children, schools, clinies and food kitchens in The nuns tated a big home for children.“A love letter to the world? There are poor people in every country. In 1965, the Missionaries of Charity started working in. Venezu South America, After that, they opened a home in Rome Then they went to Tanzania and many countries in Afica, Europe and Asi In. 1968, Mother Terest and her work. It yas a BBC programme re was a television programme about and it was on Britih TV first, After the pi many eters arrived for her. A lot of people wanted to work with her or give money. Then people in Europe, the US and Asia watched the programme. People in many countries wanted to help her. Suddenly, Mother Teresa was world-fimous She did not like being famous, The Missionaries of Charity were not hers; they were God’. She was only a pen in God's hand, she offen si, ‘And He is sending a love letter to the world P ple offen asked her about her work. One question was, ‘You ate with ill people and dying people every day Init difficule? How do you do it Her answer was, ‘I see God in every person’ For Mother Teresa, love of God was the important thing, She wanted to give her love to God, but we cannot see God, We can only see God in people. She loved poor people idea there and dying people because she loved G her, this was beautifal, not difficult ‘She was on television again in 1979 because the Nobs to her. This famous prize was $150,0 that year ~a lot of money then. Every year, the prize goes The Nobel Peace Prize went to Mother Teresato an important worker for world peace. Many important people go to Oslo from many counties for the prize day. (On that day in 1979, Mother Teres talked to them about love and peace. They asked her, “How can we get world peace?’ She answered,’Go home and love your family? In the 1980s, there were Missionaries of Charity in 100 ‘countries, They were not only in poor countries: there ‘was 2 home for dying people in New York too. Mother Teresa offen talked to heads of government in these countries, but she always dressed in her poor woman's sri In 1990, Mother Teresa was 80 years old but she did not stop working. Her days started at four o'clock in the ‘morning. She worked all diy and into the night. She had ltde sleep, A Light in a Dark Time ‘Mother Teresa died in September 1997.t the home ofthe Missionaries of Charity in Caleutea, At that time, there ‘were 4,000 Missionaries of Charity in 123 countries, and 3,000,000 people worked with them, People wanted to see her and say goodbye to her. Poor people from Calcutta and people from the government fof India came. Imporant people arrived ftom many ‘One person said about her, ‘She was a light in a dark ‘Mother Teresa was a light for the poor people of Calcutta but she is a light forall of us too, in every country of the world. ACTIVITIES age8 1-7 Botore you road 1 Takk about hese questors 1 Wat do you know about Mtr Teresa? b What do you know about these paces? Which of thom are counties? India Celotta Albania Seria treland Oubin 2 Lookat the Word List atthe back of he book What are the words in yourlanquage? ite you rat 3 Are these sentences right) or wrong Of)? ‘The Bojan amy ware very por. Agnes waried to ve fo Goa. © She worked at a hosp in Caleta 1d Many people ied because food was oxpeniv, Alter you read 4 Wien word ight? 2 ‘Sister Teresa ved in Drooing before koplfelanalout, Inia, her amily was oterisometimesneve wih her © ln the 19403, runs id not usualy work in schools! hosptasiuane Pages 8-14 ‘Bofore you read Tak abou those questions. 12 Whats the 850? 1b What do you know about be Nobel Prizes? © Which of these places ao countrey? Which ae nt? Where are ney? ‘Aca Asia Europe Great rain New York Rome South Amerca Tanzania tte US Venezu0ia 15ile you react 16 te he yours. 2 nn Mother Teresa stated 1 work nth sum. bb She startod a home for dying people in Caleta e ‘Te Missionares of Chatty started working in Sout Ameria 4 ‘There was BEC TV programme about Mother ° Mote Teresa had The Nobel Peace Pie. ‘ Mote Teresa ded, ‘Atoryou read 7 Answer these questions, Wy was he first day nthe sum feu? 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