Now that the 2020 Nightingale Bicentenary Year has arrived, we are most pleased to feature the Duchess of Cambridge's 2020 Message here >>>

​The Nightingale Initiative for Global Health — often called ‘NIGH’ — is a grassroots-to-global catalytic movement created — in Florence Nightingale's name — to keep her flame and bright spirit beaming throughout the 21st century and beyond. 

What is our
​2020 vision ? >>> 

In honour of the 2020 Year of the Nurse & Midwife, we are also developing many ways to participate in this historic time! Stay tuned!

​These include a featured keynote at the 2020 Conference of the Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation in London, UK and more keynotes across the United States and Canada, with potential visits to Asia and South America. ​Watch for more details coming soon.

In her time, Florence Nightingale followed her moral compass — beyond the battlefield — toward the social and environmental determinants of health. In our time, we can follow our moral compass to deepen and broaden our commitments to do the same with the 17 UN Global Goals. . 
 

Our Nightingale Prayer begins with these words:

“Today our world needs healing and to be rekindled with love.“

Crafted, in 1996—for the United Nations Habitat II Summit in Istanbul, Turkey — where Nightingale's famous work began — this Prayer remains keenly relevant to our time and for our challenges.

This Prayer is excellent for your plans to celebrate the 2020 Bicentenary of Nightingale's birth.  If you use it, please let us know & attribute this source.

​In keeping with our Mission & Purpose, our 3  mandates are to:
  • mobilize public opinion to reach all 17 UN Global Goals 
  • inform, involve and empower nurses and concerned citizens to participate in this advocacy — locally, nationally and internationally.

•  understand that the actions we take to support our own health are relevant to the health of all nations.

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​We are pleased and privileged to celebrate a major milestone of recognition in the history of NIGH! After more than a decade of focused work to advocate for achieving UN Global Goals, we have been granted ‘Special Consultative Status’ with the United Nations Economic & Social Council (UN ECOSOC)— to gather grassroots knowledge to share at global levels.
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Join our email list and share your story and ideas with us! 

Here are our on-site offices and how how to reach us by email. 
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NIGH World Headquarters
Centre International Réformé John Knox
Chemin des Crêts-de-Pregny 27,
1218 Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
          and
NIGH World in Canada's National Capital Region
1160 Chemin d'Aylmer • Suite 108
Gatineau, Quebec, J9H 0G5

NIGH USA
878 Paseo Del Sur
Santa Fe, New Mexico. 87501 -8836

1601 18th Street NW, Suite 4
​Washington, DC, 20009

Image Credits
Homepage candle graphic in the Public Domain, accessed from Pexels.com.  
Florence Nightingale image from NIGH's archives, in Public Domain
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge from Wikimedia Commons with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.
Nightingale Declaration candles accessed for non-profit use from the clipart-library.com.
Florence Nightingale image has been accessed from Wikipedia Commons and the National Portrait Gallery, in Public Domain.
 Red candle accessed from Stuart Sharpe, used with permission.
Nursing & Midwifery Leaders at WHO from NursingTimes.net, used with grateful attribution.
Candlelighting of 'Nurses Through The Ages' from NIGH's archives.
NIGH Logo in NIGH's archives and United Nations SDGs Color Wheel used with official UN Guidelines. 
‘Milestone’ fireworks from Wikimedia, used with the GNU Free Documentation License.
Search box magnifying glass @ PublicDomainFiles.com.

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