Hafizullah Khaled

Hafizullah Khaled is an Afghan Austrian humanitarian, peace activist. He is also a writer and the founder of the Help Afghan School Children Organization (HASCO) that is based in Vienna, Austria.

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HASCO is not for the purpose of making profit. It is a non-political organization that is dedicated to the function of helping the Afghan new returnees and families that have been displaced to send their children to school. Khaled has devoted his life to the spreading of the message of peace and to the function of helping the vulnerable children of the country. During the last 10 years, he has travelled many times to various parts of the country so as to help the orphans and disadvantaged children in the country and to promote non-violent education for the children of the country.

Khaled has many articles and poems in the two official languages of the country, Pashto and Persian. His poems disseminate the information of peace among the people of the country to defend the right of the vulnerable children of the society, some of his poems like, ‘Children the flowers of our garden’, ‘curse on war’, ‘why this continued war?’ and ‘my dream’ have been seen on many websites of the country as well as some publications in the country.

Khaled gained his Licentiate degree in Law and Political science from the University of Kabul and he has served as Liaison Officer to the United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan (UNGOMAP) as well as the Office of the United Nation Secretary General in Afghanistan and Pakistan (OSGAP) with Mr. Benon Sevan’s team in the later part of the 1980s.

In July 2007, Khaled was selected to be the ‘Person of the Mouth’ by the University-Community Partnership for Social Actions Research Network for his function in helping the poor children of the country and promoting education in the country. Some other personalities that were selected as the Person of the Mouth include the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Shirin Ebadi who is from Iran, and Mohammad Yunus Khan who is from Bangladesh as well as Dr. Wangari Maathai.

On the eve of the International Peace day, in 2009, Mr. Khaled published a collection of poem that he named ‘The Message of Peace’, the poem as well as the articles in the book keen to the promotion of peace and stability in the war-torn Afghanistan. The money that was realized from the sale of the book was spent on the promotion of education of the Afghanistan children and to help the orphans of the country and the needy children of the country to go to school.

Khaled has written his monograph about the military expenditure in the universe and there he elucidated the need for minimizing the huge military expenses and spending these money for the social and economic development of the country like the building of schools for the children of the country, building of health facilities and making drinking water available for the poor masses of the world.

In the recent years, Khaled has affiliated with several various related organizations in the country for the betterment of the people of the country. His aim is mainly on the right of the children, welfare and the creation of peaceful country.