Nana Mouskouri Quotes

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

I really enjoy charity work and helping people.

My day goes by coordinating things like transport for migrant workers, taking government permissions, organizing food among other things. And I feel very happy and satisfied. If I was shooting, I wouldn't have had all the time in the world. Now, that I have all the time, it is important to give that to the needy.

I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

Humanitarian work is something I've felt from very young, and I'm going to do that for sure.

There's a great satisfaction in humanitarian work.

Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

As I began to get a deeper understanding of the vital life-saving work Save the Children does, I felt compelled to help in any way I could. This is about safe-keeping, inspiring and empowering a future generation - to facilitate them to make their own lives a little bit better.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

That's how we grew up - kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, 'You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let's go give back to the kids.' And that's how we grew up.

I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.

I would love people to understand that not everyone can give away $100, but everyone can take the time to help someone get across a street.