Not So: Mother Teresa Children's Foundation

[DawnInTexas]

motherteresa.org/08_info/notification.swf

Warning and Official Statement regarding the “Mother Teresa Children’s Foundation”:

Missionaries of Charity
15th October 2007

In response to queries received from around the world, I hereby state that the organization known as “Mother Teresa Children’s Foundation” (and its equivalent in other languages) is not in any way whatsoever associated with the Missionaries of Charity (Sisters of Mother Teresa). *Furthermore the “Mother Teresa Children’s Foundation” is not authorized by the Missionaries of Charity to use the name or image of Mother Teresa.

God bless you.
Sister M. Nirmala, M.C.
Superior General

 

[Dale_M]

I can’t improve on a direct disavowal.

But an article written earlier this year also indicates that the “Mother Teresa Children’s Foundation” is also trying to raise funds in Britain (and apparently elsewhere in the world.)

Begging letters from the Mother Teresa Children’s Foundation claim to be “honoring Mother Teresa’s name by independently helping children all over the world.

But check the small print before sending a donation - in tiny print this lot admit to having no connection to Mother Teresa or the good cause she founded, The Missionaries of Charity.

Although a registered UK charity, none of the trustees of the Mother Teresa Children’s Foundation live in Britain. Nathan Barnes and Chen Crystal are in the United States and Sajan Kavinkalath is in India.

The mailshot gives only a PO box address in Crawley, West Sussex, the website no address at all or phone number, only the option to send a question by email.

We’ve asked them to justify using the picture and name of Mother Teresa, who died in Calcutta in 1997, but have had no reply.

A spokeswoman for the Missionaries of Charity said: "When Mother was alive she did not give permission for others to use her name.

"On fundraising Mother was quite clear. We do not fund raise for the Missionaries of Charity or want anybody else to fund raise for us. We are totally dependent on divine providence, on the sharing of others.

“We do not solicit funds and Mother always said not to raise funds in our name using her name or image or that of the Missionaries of Charity.”

blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/02/mother-teresas-children-founda.html

 

[Linda_Marie]

Thanks for the head’s up.

 

[indijanka]

The same is true here in Slovakia. They keep sending rosaries to people and ask for money. Lots of good-hearted Christians have sent them money. I heard priests in the church telling people NOT to send them money because nothing can be discovered about the people in the Mother Teresa Children’s Foundation. So I see that they are active all over the world.