Description: This lesson brings out the value of love and concern for others through two real stories—those of Mother Teresa and Janaki Iyer. Mother Teresa, a Yugoslavian by birth worked untiringly to serve the poorest of poor in India. In an interview with a journalist, Malcolm, she narrated how her journey of service to humanity started with an encounter with a young woman who she found half eaten by rats and ants lying abandoned. She took her to a hospital which refused to treat her. It is only when she refused to move from there that they eventually relented. Through her interview, we come to know how she managed to get space for destitutes, for opening schools, orphanages and to start skill training programmes, mobile dispensaries,etc. However, she realised the universal need and craving for love and a feeling of being wanted and that is what became her guiding force. Janaki Iyer, another social worker, dedicated herself to the teaching and training of young children from the poorest families