• Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a city in western India, on October 2, 1869. His parents were Karamchand Gandhi, the city's prime minister, and his wife Putlibai Gandhi. His mother was one of the biggest influences of his life, because he taught him the advantages of vegetarianism, respect for others and tolerance towards different ways of thinking and other religions from the rest of the world.

• At eighteen he moved to London to study law at University College. When he graduated he went to Bombay, where he pretended to work as a lawyer, but the little success of that profession and his lack of experience made him not be able to practice. The year 1899 was hired by an Indian firm as a legal advisor in South Africa, where he lived for twenty years.

• He served as a stretcher-bearer in the army, where after witnessing the horrors and violence of the war, he decided to start his campaign for nonviolence and pacifism. During his campaign he was arrested several times, although he regained his freedom quickly.

• In South Africa he organized an ambulance corps, led a section of the Red Cross and founded some cooperatives to defend the rights of the Indians, and then returned to India.

• Once in his native country, he got millions of poor and illiterate Indians to form a mass movement to expel the British Empire from the government of India.

• After the First World War, the British Empire regained some control over India, and that prompted Gandhi to organize several strikes for which he was arrested.

• Gandhi led a humble life: he did not accept land, he dressed like the lower classes and he was a vegetarian. He never gave himself to luxuries or bad habits even though his fame grew day by day.

• At the beginning of World War II, India refused to support Britain if it did not grant India full independence. Britain first refused, but then accepted on one condition: that India and the Muslim League resolve their differences. That meant that India must be separated in two to get its independence, but Gandhi agreed.

• On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was on his way to the evening prayer in New Delhi, when he was killed by Vinayak Nathura Godse, a Hindu extremist who shot him three times.

• Mother Teresa of Calcutta became a living example of generosity and humility towards others. She was the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and her goal was always to "help the poorest of the poor".

• His real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born on August 26, 1910 in Uskub, Macedonia. She was the youngest daughter of Nikollë Bojaxhiu and Dranafile Bernai.

• He went to a public school, where he decided that he would join the choir and also a religious missionary congregation called Sodalicio Nuestra Senora. There she listened to the stories of the missionaries who had gone to work in Bengal and she was excited, dreaming of going to work in India and helping the people who lived in the streets.

• At the age of five he made communion, later he confirmed himself and at the age of twelve he decided that his vocation would be to help others and dedicate himself to religious life.

• At the age of eight, when her father died in strange circumstances, her mother decided to educate her in the Christian religion.

• At the age of 18, when she reached the age of majority, she decided to embark on a trip to Dublin where she began to study teaching and joined the congregation of Our Lady of Loreto and changed her name to "Teresa".

• For almost twenty years she dedicated herself to being a teacher, but when she became aware of India's deep poverty, she decided to ask the Pope for a special permission to leave the congregation of Our Lady of Loreto and dedicate herself to caring for the poor people who lived in them. streets, and in 1948 he opened his first refuge.

• In 1950, he founded the Missionaries of Charity. She and her followers cared for the poor who were on the streets of India, regardless of their age, their physique or their religion.

• In 1964 he opened a shelter for lepers, and even convinced the pope to open a homeless shelter in the Vatican.

• She was elected as the representative for the United Nations Conference, and in 1979 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

• In 1982 she was chosen to be the intermediary in a conflict with Lebanon, but there were so many political interests that her help was not very useful and she decided that she would remain on the sidelines.

• By 1986 his health began to decline and his heart became weak. In 1989 he had to be fitted with a pacemaker, and in 1993 he became infected with malaria in Nueva Dehli, which worsened his heart problems.

• Since she was so weak, she had to give up her position in the Missionaries of Charity to one of her followers, Sister Nirmala, a Hindu woman who had decided to convert to the Christian religion.

• A few days after celebrating her 87th birthday, Mother Teresa had to be admitted to an intensive care center in Calcutta, where she remained until she died in September 1997.

• Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, a village in South Africa. He had fourteen brothers and lived simply in his village.

• At five years old shepherded sheep and soon after became the first of her family to go to school. His father, Henry Mandela, died when he was only nine years old, and his mother left him in charge of his godfather, who was the supreme head of the territory.

• After completing high school studies at a missionary college in South Africa, he began studying at the University College of Fort Hare to obtain a degree in the Bachelor of Arts, but then he meets Oliver Tambo and begins to take an interest in politics.

• In the year 1940 he and his friend Oliver Tambo decided to participate in a student strike, but because of that he was expelled from school.

• He moved to Johannesburg, where he began studying politics at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1943.

• In 1944 he founded the ANC (African National Congress) together with his friends, to fight against the discrimination that the government made between white people and black people. For that reason he had to face many complaints and was tried for treason.

• He secretly left Johannesburg to travel and gather people to go on a three-day strike. Eventually he would end up initiating an armed struggle and spent some time in Algeria to train as a soldier. When he returned to his country he was arrested and charged with rebellion and for 27 years he was in prison.

• During that time, racism in his country increased and violence grew. That made people take to the streets and protest to have Mandela released.

• In 1990, the government of South Africa released him and soon after he joined politics again, fighting against racism and violence in his country. In the year 1994 it obtains that elections are celebrated and it leaves chosen, being thus the first black president of South Africa.

• He gave up part of his salary and created the 'Nelson Mandela Fund', where the money would go to children.

• In 1999 he decided to retire from politics but without abandoning all his tasks, and in 2013 he died at 95 years old.
• He is well known for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, as well as 250 other awards and more than 50 university degrees.