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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine us photo Mother Teresa hat been an example to Many who come from around the world to help in her minion. Learning to care in Calcutta the thing we need most is love by Paul Wedel United press International other Teresa s face crinkles with concern As she grips the hand of a dying destitute. Beside her a Young american Delolly lances an infected and grotesquely swollen leg sending a spurt of bloody fluid into a stainless steel Basin. He is one of hundreds of foreign volunteers who have been attracted by the example of Mother Teresa donating their Lime and emotion to ease the last moments of people Lound dying on the streets of Calcutta. It is important that people feel care and love before they die said Mother Teresa Clad in the White Muslin Sari of the order she founded. With love around them some of these people die a Beautiful death the tiny albanian nun said gesturing to the people Laid out in rows on the scrubbed Stone floors of the hospice. Those that care Lor them also Benefit she said we see suffering. We respond to it and we do something about it she said. That is Good Lor our own  Michael Finnegan of Maryland said his experience was an invaluable complement to his training in clinical psychology in the United states. We so sterilize dying in the states that it loses its a Pitolo Mother Tereta Wai the sixth woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Sunday july 6, 1986 humanity its emotion Here to can love them be close to them he said gently dusting Antibiotic powder into the wound on a Man s leg. What is important is touching one individual life and making it better even in Only Lor a few moments Beloit death. Mother Teresa tries to show us this. She has taught us the importance of human touch of  Finnegan said. I be Learned More Here than in All my years of training the thing we need most is love. Simplicity is the  Paulette. From Dunkirk France War nearly overwhelmed by the stench of death and the physical Siil Torim at the  the m Pine i War Ted to run out Bui somehow you ,vn.- h inc go a Ynio  a kind of love kill you in  " -., j . R or.  declined to to inv r.,Rno Jim i in Cav. When h nit ins ".nuiii. -it.? soul i Bengali 15 an outbuilding of their   Temple or which Calcutta  named it was Given to Mother Teresa Lor the work she began in the 1950s on n Corner of a run Down area known Lor its Oil Rupee 30-cent prostitutes. Nirmal Friday s thick stucco Walls House 80 to 100 victims of India s crushing poverty. Hundreds of Tho Tandi of people live in the streets with Only minimal shelter. In the Monsoon season when disease is at its worst dozens Are brought daily to Nirmal Friday. Five to to of them Are in the hospice s tiled mortuary by Nightfall More than 50.000 people have been cared Lor at Nirmal Friday and More than half of them died there those who recover Are sent to a shelter run by Mother Teresa s missionaries of Charity where they receive further food and medical care. The Mission also operates Leper colonies dispensaries clinics and an orphanage in Calcutta but Nirmal Friday is the last Stop for the poorest of the p or. Sister Luke the efficient Singapore born nun who runs Nirmal Friday for Mother Teresa said most people die from infections that their bodies worn out by overwork and malnutrition Are too weak to Light she said the 20 nuns at the hospice carry out most of the work but foreign volunteers particularly those with medical training Are Welcome. It is a labor of love for them. Sometimes they cause us problems but they offer their love so we cannot deny them she said. Glen a Printer from Sydney came to India As a tourist when he decided to devote at least part of his trip to work at Nirmal Friday. It is hard to be with someone clean them up hold them and then see them die. I work Only five hours a Day and i m exhausted. The Sisters Are Here All the  he said. Ii must be  like some other foreigners at the hospice Glen was reluctant to give his last name. He said he did not have a visa that permitted him to work. Police had questioned some volunteers about their activities some foreigners react with anger at the social injustice that causes such suffering. I Tell them not to be angry because that would Stop us from doing something from Loving them and bringing them with love into everlasting  Mother Teresa said. Hunched Over her writing table with the Low Iron cols of the suffering around her the Nobel peace prize Winner administers her order s dozens of overseas missions and cajole authorities into doing More Lor the poor. Her Calm love and Assurance inspire Many who work with her. Mother knows what the wanta and she just goes straight for it one nun said. It is very hard to deny her. Her method is to just allow god to use her without question or  and for the hospice workers it is the simple gratitude of the victims that is their Reward. Soman Kumar Biswas said through an interpreter that he had been hungry half dead feverish and tormented by body lice when he was brought to the hospice. Clean and Well fed his head shaved and his lever gone he was reluctant to leave even Lor he outpatient shelter. Here we have food  he said Here someone  the stars and stripes Page 13  
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