###mother Teresa (09) Shanti Nagar For Lepers Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

Shanti Nagar, a City of Peace,
To train the sick and healed lepers,
In different skills was created,
Which was well appreciated.

The Indian Government handed
Near Asansol,34 acres of land
To the Missionaries of Charity,
For this humanitarian activity.

Under the guidance of the Mother,
A big leper colony came up there,
That was maintained well,
For those affected people.

In 1965, Pope Paul VI brought
This noble organization direct
Under the control of papacy,
Granting a ‘Decree of Praise.’

Pope also blessed the Mother
Authorized her to expand this order
Outside India for the benefit
Of people in every continent.

By 1996, she could open
517 missions in more than
100 countries in the world,
A really inconceivable record.

They treated the lepers, the blind,
The disabled, the aged,
The dying, the homeless,
The alcoholics and AID sufferers.

When there was a natural calamity
A team from Missionaries of Charity
Rushed to the affected places,
And undertook relief measures.

It may be flood or cyclone,
Epidemic or famine,
Earthquake or refugee centre,
They immediately rushed there.

In 1966, a Brother unit
As the male counterpart
Of Missionaries of Charity started
Everywhere in the world.

She travelled far and wide.
And with her Sisters, she moved
Fast from place to place
In almost all the countries.

She worked with aborigines,
In the Australian reserve places,
And in Cairo, with rag pickers
Who had a living from the dumps.