Welcome
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There are 15 million nurses in the World - counting nurse midwives, 35 million
The purpose of Nurses for Nurses International is to:
1. Create an international community of nurses
2. Empower the world's nurses: Strengthen international nursing, strengthen the profession of care - nursing - worldwide
15 million is a powerful force of care that - joined in a common purpose - can heal the world
Imagine what could be done if those 15 million Nurses where to connect, to share what they had learned, and to speak with one purpose. 15 million Nurses would have the power to heal the world!
Nurses for Nurses International (NFNI) is dedicated to empowering the under-represented voice of Nurses worldwide through:
- Supporting Nurses in resource poor settings through education and helping to create evidenced-based, adequately supplied and safe work environments
- Offering consulting, training, and educational services,
- Facilitating the translation of Nursing textbooks,
- Providing Nursing scholarships,
- Connecting schools of Nursing worldwide,
- Creating an online Nursing-specific store, and
- Linking Nurses worldwide with the appropriate technology.
Update from Haiti: Martha and Evans and the others continue to work day-in-and-day-out to care for the 1000s of Haitians needing care in the quake's aftermath. The Japanese JICA team continues to work in their quonset tent hospital and the Worldwide Village has set-up an army style tent hospital on the school's grounds where many of the students and nurses of Léogâne are employed. Rigan has been in WI, working along side Dr. Dopf to learn all that he can before returning to Léogâne on June 21. Michele is going back to Haiti to teach the principles of public health nursing course that had first taken her to Haiti on that fateful day in January.
Martha Desir - still hard at work...
How NFNI came to work more intensely with Haiti: NFNI Founder and CEO Michele Sare arrived in Haiti half an hour before the January 12th Earthquake devastated Haiti. What started as a trip to Haiti’s only BSN nursing school in to teach a course in public health became a turbulent journey as Sare and the nursing students converted the school into an emergency clinic where they saw hundreds, if not thousands, of patients. After a week of providing emergency care to extreme cases, supplies and help arrived and Sare was evacuated from the Haiti Nursing Foundation FSIL School of Nursing in Léogâne, Haiti.
In response to the incredibly beautiful Haitians she met and destruction witnessed, Sare started The Hope for Haiti's Nurses Project. To learn more, click here.