Mother Theresa wanted to immeadiately leave her order and go out to do what God had told her but because she had taken a vow of obediance, and could not leave with out permission. It took almost a year and a half but finally she reveived permission to leave, and she donned a blue and white sari and a pair of sandles and left the order perminently. She took a six month long medical course and then she entered the slums of culcutta with only one purpose to help the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for. Mother Theresa soon began an open air school for the young in the slums and she convinced the city to donate a old building to her cause which she used to help those with terminal desieses die with dignity.During this early period of her work Mother Theresa also was able to obtain Indian citzenship In october 7 1950 she started her own order the missionaries of charity which orginally only had a few members all of which where either former pupils from St. Mary's highschool or other teachers there. As well as teaching the children in her schools how to read she also taught them basic hygene and would often visit the homes of there families inquireing on theire needs and giving them what she could. Through out the 1950s and 60s Mother theresa established a leper colony called shantin naga or town of peace, a nursing home, a family clinic and a string of mobile health clinics. She also started a home for babies and children who's parents couldn't care for them or who had been put out on the streets. In 1962 she was awarded the Padma Shri one of its higher civilian honors for her services to the people of india. When the Pope pius X came to visit India in 1964 he gave her his limousine and she raffled it off to the highest bidder so she could finance her lepar colony. In 1979 she received the nobel peace prize for her humanitarian work and