Introducing your opportunity to support the 'Legacy of Light' Campaign....
The Legacy of Light project seizes the opportunity to tell the epic story of Florence Nightingale — while educating and engaging audiences about the critical role of nurses in the world — as well as addressing current urgent issues of global health.
The Legacy of Light (TM) is being developed as an innovative and engaging Transmedia Campaign — to engage nurses and concerned citizens to advocate for achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals as, together, we prepare to celebrate the 2020 Florence Nightingale Bicentenary — grassroots-to-global.
With a growing team of stakeholders, we will be collecting a variety of story-telling tools to assist in crafting a compelling narrative — with universal appeal — to draw audiences into action regarding their role to improve global health.
This is your opportunity to participate as we build the 'Legacy of Light' Campaign together.
With your support, we are achieving an ambitious and timely project to:
• Positively change the way the public and nurses see themselves as leaders in the efforts to improve global health.
* Increase worldwide advocacy for the 17 new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Inspire the public, and cultivate action in the global health arena.
• Create an ongoing platform for nurses and concerned citizens to share their ideas and stories
as ‘thought-leaders’ and ‘change-agents.’
• Be aware that nurses are essential to achieving many of the UN SDGs.
The Legacy of Light brings a much needed platform for the voices and wisdom of nurses to be heard, embraced and acted on. In a 2015 Gallup Poll and in polls since 2001, nurses hold the distinction as the most trusted of all professionals.
More than ever before, we are each affected by the health of everyone else around the world. Yet, most critical global health issues remain under-reported, under-valued and poorly understood.
Although nurses and many others have significant knowledge, experience and wisdom, we have yet to effectively share what we know with the wider general public of the global community.
This project will make a difference by raising the issues, empowering nurses and global citizens, as well as creating the spaces for dialogue and action.
'Legacy of Light' — Strategy # 1
The first of our strategies to introduce the ‘Legacy of Light’ is to post stories of nurses and midwives — from across the world — who are already working to achieve the new 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Examples of the stories we are already telling include — The Indian Scenario about the scope of nursing’s role in India — Teacher Becomes Lay-Midwife about a woman bringing health care to her rural district in Uganda and Earthquake! Ready to Care — about a nurse educator who had landed into the Port-au-Prince Airport in Haiti — just as the 2010 earthquake struck there — and the big difference she started to make even at that very first instant.
We therefore invite you to submit a story — or story idea — to please contact our story collector Darren Panicali. Click here to learn more about Darren and this opportunity.
We would love to consider your story and look forward to hearing from you about this!
The above graphic is widely used to depict Florence Nightingale as the 'Lady with the Lamp' who cared for wounded and dying soldiers during the Crimean War. In public domain.
The first of our strategies to introduce the ‘Legacy of Light’ is to post stories of nurses and midwives — from across the world — who are already working to achieve the new 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Examples of the stories we are already telling include — The Indian Scenario about the scope of nursing’s role in India — Teacher Becomes Lay-Midwife about a woman bringing health care to her rural district in Uganda and Earthquake! Ready to Care — about a nurse educator who had landed into the Port-au-Prince Airport in Haiti — just as the 2010 earthquake struck there — and the big difference she started to make even at that very first instant.
We therefore invite you to submit a story — or story idea — to please contact our story collector Darren Panicali. Click here to learn more about Darren and this opportunity.
We would love to consider your story and look forward to hearing from you about this!
The above graphic is widely used to depict Florence Nightingale as the 'Lady with the Lamp' who cared for wounded and dying soldiers during the Crimean War. In public domain.