Hafizullah Khaled

Who is Hafizullah Khaled?

Hafizullah Khaled is an Afghan Austrian humanitarian, Peace activist, writer and founder of the Help Afghan School Children Organization based in Vienna.

HASCO is a not-for-profit, non-political Organization dedicated to assisting Afghan new returnees and displaced families send their children into school. Hafizullah Khaled has devoted himself to spreading the message of Peace and to assisting the vulnerable children of Afghanistan. During the last ten years Khaled has travelled several times to different part of Afghanistan in order to assist orphans and disadvantaged children and promote non-violent education for Afghan children.

Khaled has numerous articles and poems in both Afghan Official languages. His poems spread the message of peace among Afghans to defend the rights of disadvantaged children, some of his poems such as “Children the flowers of our garden”,”Curse on war” ای جنګ لعنتی,"Why this continued war?" چرا این جنگ بی پایان,"My dream" زما ارمان have appeared on several Afghan web sites and publications.

Khaled received his Licentiate's degree in Law and Political science from Kabul University and has worked as Liaison Officer to the United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Office of the UN Secretary General in Afghanistan and Pakistan with Mr. Benon Sevan's team in late 1980s. Mr.Benon Sevan was a special representative of United Nation Secretary General in Afghanistan. He was assigned to transfer power peacefully to a neutral interim government in Afghanistan.His peace plan was blocked in the last days of its implementation.