Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

I'm a reporter. I've been a big supporter of The Clinton Foundation. Back in 2001 and 2002, people forget that Bill Clinton went to Harlem and set this foundation up. They've helped millions of people across the globe and here in America.

UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.

I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.

I'm the spokesperson for the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees. My father was from Syria. It's an American initiative, and it's multi-faith. So, it's maybe 60-65 different organisations, Jews, Christians, Hindus... Anyway, it's very important and serious.

We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.

The 'Maddox Jolie-Pitt' Foundation's work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

I am so impressed by UNHCR staff who live and work side by side with the refugees. It's really remarkable.

I take a part of my monthly earnings, and I donate it to my foundation. And this is to distribute hot meals, distribute gifts to children. We help by giving clothing and shoes to people that don't have the resources.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

The year when I left my country, there was still peace. The year after, the war broke out, a lot of people lost their homes, lost their families. When I go back 20 years later I still find people living in refugee camps. So I tried to help them find homes.

I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

I gave to a [Hillary Clinton ]foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn't know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world.

It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.

He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.