A modern-day miracle saved her life, claims Sister Christobel, the founder of Mother Teresa's Roses, a Mumbai-based charity working on the streets to help the sick and dying.
BARMING, ENGLAND (AlertNet) - A modern-day miracle saved her life, claims Sister Christobel, the founder of Mother Teresa's Roses, a Mumbai-based charity working on the streets to help the sick and dying.
Sister Christobel says a blessing she received from Mother Teresa with a red rose while she lay dying of cancer in 1992 saved her from death. She had worked for Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and won the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work, since 1974 in Bangladesh, Italy, Africa and the UK.
After Mother Teresa died in 1997, Sister Christobel started "Mother Teresa's Roses", a charitable trust of 100 staff operating on an annual budget of about 26,000 pounds a year mainly in Mumbai and Goa.
Their work involves going out onto the streets to provide food, clothing and shelter for the homeless. Mother Teresa's Roses also has four donated houses in Goa where the nuns and 43 children live, Sister Christobel said.
In Mumbai, the group manages a mother-and-child wellness centre and a day school for about 60 street children.
At a recent fundraising event at St Margaret of Antioch Church in Barming, near Maidstone in Kent, supporter Dennis Edwardes and Sister Christobel explained how her charity works.
"These people are people who would never be looked at by any organization because they are completely below the marginalised level," Sister Christobel said.
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