46 years ago today, December 10, 1979 (October 21, 1979 in the lunar calendar), Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On December 10, 1979, at the 1979 Nobel Prize awarding ceremony held by the Nobel Foundation at the Stockholm Concert Hall, the King of Sweden awarded five Nobel Prizes to the winners. The Nobel Prize Committee of the Parliament of Norway awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo to Mother Theresa of Calcutta, India, in recognition of her work on the toiling people. After learning, Theresa said she would accept the prize "in the name of the poor" and use the $190,000 prize money to the lepers and poor people she dedicated herself to. Theresa founded the charity in 1948 in the slums of Kolkata, India. The charity has created schools, hospitals, youth centers and orphanages in 50 cities in India and cities around the world from New York to Papua New Guinea. In Calcutta, hundreds of beggars, lepers, blind people, kidnappers, dying people and abandoned people gather outside charity meetings every day to receive alms. For decades, Theresa has given poor people in slums medical treatment, education, a bowl of porridge, a piece of bread, or just a clean place to die.