Missionaries of Charity was to care for (in Mother Teresa's words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It began as a small community with 12 members in Calcutta (now Kolkata), and today it has over 4,500 Sisters running orphanages, home for those dying of AIDS, charity centres worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin
Nirmala Sheoran team who took gold at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar. The team was Nirmala, Mazumdar, M. R. Poovamma and Jisna Mathew. Nirmala Sheoran Nirmala Sheoran (born 15 July 1995) is an Indian sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event. Sheoran was born in Chehad Khurd village of Haryana state's Bhiwani district. She qualified for two events at the 2016 Summer Olympics: the women's 400 metres and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay. Sheoran qualified for the women's 400 metres event at the Olympics by clocking 51.48 seconds, her personal best time, at the National Inter-State Senior