Cause Connections 

Listed below are Nurses for Nurses International (NFNI) Featured Causes: The Haiti Nursing Foundation and Palms Australia Global Volunteering. 

We encourage you to visit our Hope for Haiti's Nurses Project to learn more about the  needs of nurses in Haiti. 

To learn more and to see how you can get involved in our Featured Causes, please contact NFNI. If you are unable to work with one of our Featured Causes at this time, please see below for other great organizations that are making an impact on the world. 

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Haiti Nursing Foundation

HNF is a public charity with 501(c)(3) designation, allowing receipt of tax-deductible donations. The organization  has a volunteer Board of Directors with an Executive Committee to manage day-to-day operations."The Haiti Nursing Foundation (HNF) was incorporated in Michigan in February, 2005, to support the advancement of nursing in the Republic of Haiti.  The focus of this support is on nursing education, especially on Faculté des Sciences Infirmières de l’Université Episcopale d’Haïti (Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University of Haiti – or FSIL), located in Léogâne, Haiti.  Other purposes include support of special projects to improve the practice of nursing in Haiti".

To learn more about the work of the HNF please click on their link. Nurses for Nurses International is inspired by this crucial and compassionate work. We donated to HNF by offering a course on the principles of public health to their senior nursing students, gifted new stethoscopes to their 2011 graduating class of 22 and worked with the students in January 2010 in the week immediately during and following the earthquake...What time, money or experience might you have to offer fellow nurses in this resource challenged country where there is one nurse to 10,000 - 12,000 citizens (maybe we can't complain about workload here in developed countries!) Visit www.haitinursing.org/ to learn more about their work.

 

Palms Australia

Global Volunteering: 
Good Relationships, Better Aid

 

 "Palms Australia recruited Annette Pocock from the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) to work as a Lecturer in St Mary's School of Nursing, Vunapope (Papua New Guinea). Annette is a highly qualified and highly trained senior Registered Nurse. She will be teaching and training at the School of Nursing to assist in staff development, to conduct clinical classes and supervision of trainee-nurses. Annette also has many years of professional experience across the field of nursing health care".

Palms Australia recruits nurses to staff, teach and mentor in some of our world's most resource challenged settings. To learn more about the work of Palms, please visit www.palms.org.au/.

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Nurses for Nurses International recommends the following organizations: 

Nurses Without Borders 
To help nurses who are looking for opportunities to practice nursing abroad. To create a network of information that all nurses can use to find the part of the world and the type of nursing they would like to practice. To provide short term and long term opportunities for nurses to volunteer abroad. 

Women for Women International 
Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies. 

We envision a world where no one is abused, poor, illiterate or marginalized; where members of communities have full and equal participation in the processes that ensure their health, well-being and economic independence; and where everyone has the freedom to define the scope of their lives, their futures and to strive to achieve their full potential. 

Save the Children 
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. It is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 28 national Save the Children organizations working in more than 110 countries to ensure the well-being of children. 

Invisible Children 
...improves the quality of life for war-torn children by providing access to quality education, enhanced learning environments, and innovative economic opportunities for the community... 

United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICF) 
Focus Areas: 1) Child survival and development: Evidence-based child survival, nutrition and environmental interventions; 2) Basic education and gender equality: Free, compulsory quality education for all children; 3) HIV/AIDS and children: Mother-to-Child Transmission, Pediatric Treatment, Prevention, Children Affected by AIDS, 4) Child protection: Protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse, and 5) Policy advocacy and partnerships: Data, policy analysis, leveraging resources, child participation. 

United Nation's Girl's Education Initiative 
"A world where all girls and boys are empowered through quality education to realize their full potential and contribute to transforming societies where gender equality becomes a reality.” 

Red Cross Red Cresant 
The seven fundamental principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent are humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality.  

Doctors Without Borders 
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. 

Shriner's Hospitals for Children's 
Shriner's Hospitals for Children is a one-of-a-kind international health care system of 22 hospitals dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing specialty pediatric care, innovative research and outstanding teaching programs. 

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 
St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility. Discoveries made here have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. With research and patient care under one roof, St. Jude is where some of today's most gifted researchers are able to do science more quickly.