Jo Cox Quotes

I'd love to work with children. I've set up the charity, and that's going well. We've got a lot of projects we're doing in Somalia, so I'd like to see how we're doing there.

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp.

Catholic Charities is already one of the largest government contractors in the United States.

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

My sister has a non-profit organization called Mission Change. It helps the homeless and kids.

When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.

I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.

I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

I am a charity campaigner.