How did Mother Teresas achievements effect us?

Answer 1

Mother Teresa's achievements have effected us all rather profoundly. The repercussions of her life and actions are still having a lasting effect on people throughout the world.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in poor communities.

For many years development agencies have tried various strategies to improve the life of the poorest of the poor - "top down" strategies which were supposed to benefit the poor by supporting large projects in the hope that benefits would accrue to the poorest people by the 'trickle down effect' were perhaps the least successful. Other approaches ('grassroots') boasted at least a little more success.

However, one approach that always seems to work wonders in development everywhere it is tried, is a program based around the empowerment of women. Wherever women can be freed from the cycle of reproduction and given a little micro credit and a few seeds, lasting, sustainable development has always followed.

By preaching her particular religious dogma that contraception is murder, Mother Teresa put the cause of development of the poor back by many years. Although it is hard to gauge how much suffering her proselytizing of Catholic dogma has caused, it is certainly much greater than the little relief she brought to the dying patients in her mission in Calcutta.

While we continue to attach more importance to the appearance of piousness and faith than we do to actual results, Mother Teresa and her ilk will continue to condemn large sections of human beings to death through poverty and aids.

Answer 2

Her impact was she helped others, Mother Teresa had made a huge impact in many peoples lives, which included dying children from starvation, homeless, and the poor. She had changed the lives of those people and made them what they should be.