Mission of Charity
Following a call from Virgin Mary Mother Teresa founded female monastic order “Missionaries of Charity” in India in 1950. She started bringing critically ill people from the streets of Kolkata to an old shelter for Hindu pilgrims belonging to a big Kali temple complex in 1952, which was the beginning of the Home for Dying Destitutes.
The old man is a former patient who recovered and stayed in the shelter, he checks passes of the volunteers at the entrance writing their names into a thick copybook. Today the Kalighat Home gives place to almost a hundred of local people in critical health condition. About ten nuns and novices, a dozen of volunteers and a few paid workers provide daily care to the residents.
Dwellers of different social realities, western volunteers and novices of the Mission follow same path in their daily work and trips to the shelter.
Following a call from Virgin Mary Mother Teresa founded female monastic order “Missionaries of Charity” in India in 1950. She started bringing critically ill people from the streets of Kolkata to an old shelter for Hindu pilgrims belonging to a big Kali temple complex in 1952, which was the beginning of the Home for Dying Destitutes.