At age 18, an Albanian named Agnes Bojaxhiu felt called to be a missionary in India; a few years later, after religious training, she took the name Teresa and worked in Bengali, in a hospital for destitute mothers. She taught for a time in Calcutta but was continually drawn to the poor on the streets. Sister Teresa received an inspiration to work exclusively among the poor. She waited for several years for permission to leave her Order. She then took nurses' training so that she could care for both physical and spiritual needs. She began her work alone in the slums of Calcutta. In time others joined her and formed the Missionaries of Charity, in the spirit of the early church deaconesses who ministered to the sick and poor. In 1952 Mother Teresa founded a House for the Dying, a place where homeless people could die with dignity. Mother Teresa insisted that this was not social work, but contemplation: seeing Jesus in the outcasts of the world. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.