STUDENTS SAY MOTHER TERESA IS ROLE MODEL

India can’t be shining if there is poverty and sickness, and Mother Teresa didn’t search for intellectual solutions to remove the cause of poverty, she just reached out and took the hand of the most shunned humans. This is what Priyanshu Dikshit, a third year student from Patna Women’s College says.

For Madhup Madhumita, a Mass Media Graduate, “Mother Teresa is this awesome woman. Her approach to unwanted female babies was don’t kill them, give them to me. I will look after them with love. And hundreds of unwanted baby girls have been left at Mother Teresa’s homes. And they are living in an atmosphere of love.”

Priyanshu and Madhup are among a growing number of young volunteers who are lending their support to a unique film festival that will be unveiled in several schools and other locations in Patna between 2 and 5 September 2011.  The Mother Teresa International Film Festival with 12 films on the theme of Nobel laureate and Bharat Ratna will tour the city thanks to the initiative of a group of determined citizens led by AASRA Charitable Trust.

Patna YMCA Chief Christopher Bachmann hoped the festival and the life of Mother Teresa would inspire youngsters to look beyond consumerism, and challenge them to be more considerate and caring.

The venues of the festival are Notre Dame Academy, Don Bosco, St. Xavier’s School, Patna Women’s College, Navjyoti Niketan and the Government College of Arts and Crafts. There will be special screenings in schools in Patna City and Hajipur as well, it is learnt. 

[ACT PATNA PRESS RELEASE]