Nwankwo Kanu Quotes

Raising awareness for Nepal was and still is an important role for me.

Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the world, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.

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.

I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I am a charity campaigner.

I want to create my own charity, getting inner-city kids to read more. And I want to produce my own films.

When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its missions is to help with HIV/AIDS awareness.

I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my public support for those charities is a help for their work, not a hindrance.

When we go and play live... we go and we work with like different organizations: the food banks, homeless shelters, children's hospitals or different homes that are reaching out to people. And just to actually go and say, 'Hey, don't just hear me play, come to my concert, that's it, hope you have a good night.' It's like, 'Hey, come be a part.'

I am so honored to be working with A Place Called Home as their ambassador to bring awareness to the incredible services and programs which benefits kids in the Los Angeles community.

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.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

And if I could get the mayors, and the governors, and the president to look into the eyes of the five-year-olds of this nation, dressed in old raggedy clothes, whose zippers are broken but whose dreams are still alive, they would know what I know-that children need people to fight for them. To stand with them on the most dangerous streets, in the dirtiest hallways, in their darkest hours.

I've been a UNICEF ambassador since I was 17.

I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education.

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

Working with kids is something I really enjoy doing - that's why I also do work with UNICEF.

I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

Many people have the heart to give back, but a lot don't know how to. I try to be the bridge for those people - whether that means getting them involved in one of my campaigns or inspiring them by showing them a blueprint of how to get others engaged.

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.