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Mother Teresa of Calcutta and abandoned children
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shishu bavan
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Mother Teresa from the beginning began to teach children in the very poor neighborhood of Moti Jhil. But she soon realized that there were many abandoned children on the streets and, for them, she founded the Niramala Shishu Bavan (House of the Abandoned Child) in 1955.
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Orphaned children in Shishu Bhavan were picked up from the streets, sometimes from rubbish bins, or found lying on the ground on station platforms. Almost all of them were acutely malnourished or had tuberculosis, but they all needed love. Sometimes, it was the parents themselves who, in a desperate act, left them in the hands of the missionaries. Other times it was the police or social workers who took them away. They were scrawny children, with potbellies and prematurely aged. Some were crippled. Many of these children survived and, as they grew up, learned a trade so that they could hold their own in life before they were married. Others were given up for adoption: Hindus, to Hindu parents; Christians, to Christian parents.