USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -work in Kolkata The Order of the Missionaries of Charity, an organization founded (1948) by Mother Teresa (recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1979), cares for the blind, the elderly, the dying, and people afflicted with leprosy in the poorest sections of the city.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jyotirao Phule established an orphanage in 1854 in order to help the less fortunate children of society to find a home for themselves.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Missionaries of Charity (Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

Detailed explanation-4: -By India Today Web Desk: The Missionaries of Charity was established by the Blessed Mother Teresa on October 7, 1950 with the sole aim to give ‘wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor’.