Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born in Albania on August 26th 1910. She became a Loretto nun in Rathfarnham, Dublin. She went to India to teach but she often saw very poor people when she was coming out of the school . She was teaching rich children but she thought she would like to work with the poor instead. There is a story of how, one day, she saw a woman lying on the ground dying. Mother Teresa stayed with her until she died. She left the Loretto nuns and founded the Missionary of Charity. She worked in Calcutta. She wanted to help people die with dignity and so cared for people with leprosy, and other contagious diseases, when other people were afraid to go near them. Most of those who joined to help her were rich girls. One girl wanted to join so badly that she came with her family when she was quite young. Mother Teresa sent her away to make sure she wanted to join. A few years later when the girl was older she returned dressed in rags and she joined the order. People of every religion admired Mother Teresa and so she was given the freedom of the world (which means she could travel anywhere for free) by the airlines. She died in 1997. The Pope has recognised all the good things she did and so she is being beatified, which is the first step to her becoming a saint.
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England owned India until 1947. Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer and he thought that it was very unfair that England had control of India, and that India was not free. He didn't like the way Indians were treated because of the colour of their skin. He began protests to help India become free again. He used "non-violent disobedience" in his fight for freedom for India. He was peaceful and he didn't want his followers to fight. One thing he did was when the government put a tax on salt (which the Indians needed to keep food fresh because they had no refrigerators at the time), he and his followers went to the sea and took seawater. They left it in the sun and all the water evaporated, leaving only the salt behind. Sea water has quite an amount of salt. They used this salt instead of buying it. Seven years after Gandhi began campaigning for freedom, India was granted it's independence. He was murdered soon after India got it's independence from England.
