In 1971, Mother Teresa received the Pope Paul XXII Award. The $25,000 reward money was used to help those with leprosy by building a leper colony. Throughout the early 1970's, sister foundations of the Missionaries of Charity were formed in England, the United States, Jordan, Bangladesh, Israel, Mauritius,Yemen, and Peru. It was also during this time that Brothers of The Missionaries of Charity went to serve the people of Saigon, providing shelter and food for the homeless. The brothers continued to work in Saigon until 1975 when communists took over the houses, forcing the brothers to eave the area.
Mother Teresa wrote: "This year has been heartbreaking We lost five houses in Vietnam and Cambodia. The buildings don't matter. But to be separated so finally from all the people one came to know and love is unbelievably painful. I shall never be the same after this, and I know I shall have an ache in my heart for them until the day I die."
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