INCLUSION • DIVERSITY • EQUITY & JUSTICE
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Connecting these four attributes as essential for the well-being of all—we are using this 'Featuring' space to recognize and appreciate several of Our Team members and friends who are working in advocacy to achieve these interrelated attributes — all related to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Image Credits: SDG Logos / Hands Together Wylly Suhendra / Unsplash.com
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Image & slideshow © Dionne Sinclair, used with permission.
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We are privileged to be featuring this powerful and thoughtful slide show from our friend and long-time Nurse Advisor Dionne Sinclair. This presentation offers significant insights into our current human challenge— to appreciate cultural diversity, learn from it and become healthier human beings through our own commitments to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Justice.
Images: Yuko's Website & Facebook, used with permission.
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Inochinoki = Tree of Life
Our friend Yuko Leong is a Public Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (PHCNS-BC), who uses a framework of case management and visual art practice. She has been collaborating with NIGH since 2009 when she shared her autobiographical story — “The Blue Clouds of Hope" — with our 2010 team of nurses who created a stories-based website to celebrate
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“Public Health is in an ongoing process of despair and healing. We need to be aware of and prepare
for both.” Yuko Leong |
the 2010 Nightingale Centennial Year that was also designated as an International Year of the Nurse.
Now Yuko is developing her own website @ https://inochinoki.com to express her compassionate, creative and caring Spirit and to encourage others to ponder her culture and celebrate the diversity of cultures richly expressed across our world. While sharing why she chose “Inochinoki” — the Japanese word for Tree of Life — Yuko recalled one of our favorite quotes as well: “Nature alone cures … What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.” Florence Nightingale
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East African 'Concerned Citizens' Involving Their Diaspora Worldwide
Our friends and longtime Advisors Andrew and Jeniffer Mukhwana have recently moved to Canada to join the strong East African diaspora living in Toronto. At a conference in Switzerland In 2010, they met our NIGH team as 'concerned citizens' who wanted to actively participate in NIGH's development. Ever since, we've featured their Uganda stories and contributions — sharing highlights here below.
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With a wide-ranging background in professional education, Andrew Mukhwana now leads a world-wide network of Africans called the 'Teachers' Dialogue‘ — to increase understanding between diverse cultures and faiths. In this capacity, he serves as a strong NIGH Advisor and networker.
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Jeniffer Mukhwana is a Teacher, Lay-Midwife and now a Personal Support Worker focused on serving elderly Canadians. As a NIGH Advisor, she has provided many insights into East African life and has recently collaborated to create a Kiswahili Version of the Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World.
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The charming image on the left features students at the Summit View School in Kampala, Uganda. This photo was taken in 2107 by Andrew Mukhwana, who was then Headmaster at Summit View — providing children of Ugandan active-duty military personnel with primary and secondary education. While serving as an education leader in Uganda's capital Kampala, Andrew lead a city-wide celebration of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals on UN Day in 2017.
Images from the Mukhwana archives, used with permission.
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Featuring the Nightingale Declaration in Eight Languages...
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With our commitment to nurses and concerned citizens worldwide, we are pleased to be featuring the Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World—NIGH's foundational credo for all our work— in all six official United Nations languages, plus Portuguese and Kiswahili—in collaboration with Our Team's Council of Advisors.
In the coming months and years, we will be adding many more languages to this offering and building upon these commitments with stories representing all these languages and cultures. Be sure to enjoy our brief video 'Introducing the 'Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World.' |
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from NIGH's 2008 & 2009 Archives...
Still Celebrating the Diversity, Equity and Common Ground of Nurses Worldwide