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10. Sister Teresa
left home in Albania aged 18 and never saw her family again. She received a “call” to leave the comforts of her convent and to live with and minister to the poor. At first she had no income and begged for food and supplies. For 45 years she helped the sick, orphaned, and dying in Calcutta, India. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Teresa has been criticised for accepting donations from corrupt people, speaking out against abortion and “spiritualising” poverty.
11. Irene Sendler
was a Polish social worker who helped save the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during WW2. In 1942 Nazi soldiers herded 500,000 Polish Jews into the ghetto to await transportation to the extermination camps. Along with others, she smuggled the children out in coffins, suitcases, toolboxes and through the sewers. She was caught , imprisoned and tortured, but did not reveal the secrets of her organisation. After escaping a death sentence, she returned to her work under a different name.
The Courageous Heart of Irene Sendler.
2009
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