Save a Girl, Change the World & Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH)

Save a Girl, Change the World is pleased to announce the support of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) – Creating a healthy world together.

The mission of NIGH is to inform and empower nurses and other health care workers and educators to become ‘21st Century Nightingales’ — working in the local, national and global community to build a healthy world (NIGH, 2010).

Enabling peoples of the United Nations, as citizens of its Member States, to work together in a worldwide campaign for health as the top global priority;

Enlisting nurses and other health care workers and educators to work together effectively — and to collaborate with others of like-mind, heart and spirit— in mobilizing public opinion to this purpose;

Encouraging individual initiative and cooperative action toward these ends by highlighting the life of Florence Nightingale and the lives other nurses and health care workers—past and present—who have devoted themselves to building a healthy world.

One Goal of NIGH:
To build a grassroots movement among nurses, health care workers, educators and other global citizens—from every country and community—who will work together to inform, educate and mobilize public opinion throughout the world towards the adoption of health as the universal priority of the United Nations and its Member States.

Save a Girl, Change the World has signed the “Nightingale Declaration for Our Healthy World”.

"We, the nurses and concerned citizens of the global community, hereby dedicate ourselves to the accomplishment of a healthy world by the year 2020.

We declare our willingness to unite in a program of action, sharing information and solutions to resolve problems and improve conditions -- locally, nationally and globally -- in order to achieve health for all humanity.

We further resolve to adopt personal practices and to implement public policies in our communities and nations, making this goal for the year 2020 achievable and inevitable, beginning today in our own lives, in the life of our nations and in the world at large (NIGH, 2010).

To learn more: www.nightingaledeclaration.net

Reference:
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) (2010). Creating a healthy world together. Retrieved on May 2, 2010 from http://www.nightingaledeclaration.net