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Research Paper On Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa’s Moral Courage We all know that Mother Teresa was a strong-willed person but she also showed great moral courage. Mother Teresa was born in the city of Skopje, Macedonia in the year 1910. At a young age, she had already decided to devote her life to the Catholic faith, she worked in Darjeeling, India for a while as a teacher, but saw a greater need to help the poor living in the streets. Mother Terisa although frequently criticized built establishments designed to help the poorest of the poor and people all over the world. Under constant criticism Mother Teresa helped millions of people all over the world. (Biography.com) It’s hard to believe that one person could do so much good. Mother Teresa of Calcutta built homes for the poor, a leper colony, an orphanage, nursing homes, a family clinic, and a string of mobile health clinics, and many mobile health clinics. Mother Terisa showed moral courage by ignoring the people who criticized her work and said she couldn’t do it and kept helping people the way she knew best. When no one else would Mother Teresa helped people in Calcutta India by giving them places to stay, feeding them, she would physically pick these people up with her bare hands and carry them to shelter, bathing …show more content…

Even after doing all this good the media, people in the government, and others would criticize the way she and her sisters would be helping the needy. Although most of these people wouldn’t be caught dead in a soup kitchen they claimed that Mother Teresa and her sisters where unfit and untrained to be administering the lifesaving treatment to whoever needed it in their streets, although this may be true they probably hadn’t all gone to medical school they were still wildly successful and helped where no one else would.

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