Mother Teresa Wins The Nobel Peace Prize

In 1979, Mother Teresa was chosen as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the suffering and dying. She choose to give all of the financial reward to the poor, even cancelling her celebration banquet. Mother Teresa wished that the $3000 set aside for the banquet would be used for those who really were in need of a meal. She wrote:

"I want to make it very clear I do not want our Co— Workers to he involved in fund raising. It was necessary before for us to have Flag Days, Leper Days, Children ‘s Days and all this. We had to do all this because nobody knew we existed hut now the work has involved so many people that we just get — even in India where we never used to get anything before — we used to feed about 20,000 rupees after working hours and hours — those who were in Calcutta they know how hard they had to work — now without even asking, without any difficulties we get quite a lot of money and help for the lepers Let us avoid publicity under that fund raising name because it has become like a target with other o1ganizations and people are beginning to doubt, and so let us not give them a chance." 

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