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have a dinner for her and to use the money “to feed 400 poor children in India for a year”.
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she taught in St. Mary's High School until 1946.
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at the age of twelve she made the decision to become a nun.at the age of eighteen she become a nun
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Born to Albanian parents in Skopje on August 27th 1910, Agnes Gonxha Bejaxhiu, spent her life with the poor in India. As a child, she was extremely kind and gentle and helped whoever she saw in need.
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She became an Indian citizen later that year. This allowed her to do more wonderful work. In 1950, she started a charity organization in Calcutta to feed the hungry and look after the sick. She never once refused anyone help, and her work made a difference to the lives of the desperate people she lived beside.
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At the Nobel Prize winning ceremony in 1979, where she wore her famous blue sari, she asked the Nobel organization not to have a dinner for her and to use the money “to feed 400 poor children in India for a year”.
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This act showed what kind of generous person she was. In 1997 she caught pneumonia and when she died some time later famous people from all over the world came to pay their respects to a brilliant and brave woman.