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...a timeless story of a deep friendship
with the social impact of an historic crusader like Gandhi

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With the Florence Nightingale 2020 Bicentenary
coming soon, what better time than now to tell her story?
Raising awareness of this woman whose singular
commitment, caring and innovations have changed
the course of human history, reshaping health care for the last 150 years
and enabling billions of people worldwide to live healthier lives.

We seek a global audience through Independent Film
and our Transmedia Campaign
then with Television — to inspire, inform, entertain and empower
people everywhere — to join in common cause for global health...

...and, in keeping with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals — also called 'Global Goals' — sharing an encompassing, interconnected circle of everything needed to achieve, by 2030, a healthy, civilized and prosperous world.

In preparation for the 2020 Bicentenary
of Florence Nightingale's birth and beyond — our Legacy of Light media package is dedicated to portraying vivid stories and opportunities to connect the ongoing relevance of Nightingale's life, work and insights to our times and today's United Nations Global Goals.

Florence Nightingale — the famous ‘lady with the lamp’ — is most-known for nursing wounded and dying soldiers during the Crimean War — and for founding modern secular nursing. But Nightingale's life and work also encompassed a much wider field of creative initiative and influence — still highly relevant for today.

Beyond and including nursing — Nightingale was also inter-disciplinary. She understood that health is determined by many factors and called this 'Health Nursing' These 'health determinants' included issues she worked to improve — like clean water, sanitation, nutrition, education, decent employment, housing and healthy environments, human rights, including the rights of women and children — the same issues now encompassed by the 17 United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

And, in keeping with all our 2020 purposes
and plans, you are invited to participate in....

Developed by the
Nightingale Initiative for
Global Health • NIGH

The Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World:

To Achieve 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development

Sign the Nightingale Declaration !

Soon to be featured in all six official United Nations languages — our Nightingale Declaration goal is to
reach 20 million signatures by 2020!

Homepage Image Credits
Opening candle & down arrows from Pexels.com in public domain
SDGs Colour Wheel used with attribution to the World Meterological Organization (WMO)
Nightingale with her lamp used with attribution to the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance
SDG Logos Chart & Colour Wheel used with attribution to the UN Guidelines

Nightingale Declaration Image Credits
Nightingale Signature from Wikimedia
Feather used with attribution