Chennai Students Design 1000-Foot Long Scroll In Honour Of Mother Teresa

Chennai: With just a day to go for the September 4 canonisation of Mother Teresa, students of a school in Chennai paid tributes to the revered nun in the most unique manner.

Students of Chennai's Vidhya Matriculation Higher Secondary School designed a 1000-feet long greeting scroll as tribute to the Nobel Peace Prize winning nun.

Over two thousand students wrote messages, drew floral designs and stuck pamphlets on the five-feet-wide scroll stuck along the walls of the school auditorium.

Several students pasted pictures of Mother Teresa along side world leaders like Ronald Reagan and Princess Diana. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa too featured in the scroll.
 
After kindergarten students had left imprints of their tiny coloured palms on the scroll, the students dotted the Medavakkam-Sholinganallur road displaying the quarter-kilometre greeting banner.

A student expressed happiness over the honour bestowed upon Mother Teresa by the Vatican, saying, "Canonisation is making one a saint. We are happy that Mother Teresa has been recognised for this."

Talking about the importance of values in the education system, Jayaseelan, a headmaster at the school, said, "Mother Teresa's values are still relevant and it's important that we inspire children telling them about her contribution."

Mother Teresa worked with the poorest of the poor in the sprawling metropolis of Kolkata for nearly four decades, having initially come to the city as a missionary teacher with Ireland's Loreto order.

She died in 1997.