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In 2009, a made for TV movie entitled, The Courageous Heart of Irina Sendler, told the story of a Polish nurse who on the pretense of giving typhus shots and working with the ill in the Warsaw Ghetto, smuggled out nearly 2,500 Jewish children and infants, provided them with false papers and foster homes that […]

What a beautiful way to start 2016, with a message of hope from our partners at The Lighthouse Foundation. We hope this will help frame your year as it will ours. ~Michael and Frida Donner Since 2004, the Lighthouse Foundation has been active in helping the hurting people of Haiti.  In 2011, one of our […]

I want to update you all on what took place at our company holiday in early December.  I communicated to our 200 employees that in 2016 we would be making an added donation on behalf of each employee to pay for a daily hot lunch for 4 children.  In total, that would nearby double our […]

We are proud and grateful with all that we have again been able to accomplish this past year with our Community of Compassion. With your help, our work touched and improved the lives of thousands around the world. –We continued to provide camperships to children for Camp Ronald McDonald.  To know that we are instrumental […]

The holidays are especially difficult for those battling illness, and especially for those in hospitals, nursing homes, or hospice facilities. Even with family and friends coming to visit, these facilities can bring on a feeling of isolation and loneliness that can be detrimental to health and healing.  While nurses play a pivotal role in the […]

Thanks to easy access to digital sources of communication, social media is becoming an increasingly effective, wide-ranging tool for nurses who seek apps, information, community, and communication. Beyond these benefits, social media is an essential tool for those who work as advocates for the profession of nursing, both those in the profession and those supporting […]

We recently came across this article, “What I Wish Someone Told Me BEFORE Becoming a Registered Nurse,” and found the insights worth sharing.  Not only are they helpful for nurses, we believe they apply to our lives and to our chosen professions. We hope you find this as meaningful as we did. ~Michael and Frida […]

At Barco’s Nightingale Foundation we encourage men and women to choose Nursing as their profession.  Even so, we recognize that not everyone may be sure about entering the nursing field. We believe that it is important to understand the challenges. Being a nurse comes with tremendous responsibilities. Often nurses work with people who at the […]

Haiti is the poorest country in the Northern Hemisphere with approximately 55% of the Haitian population living below the international poverty line. Five years after the devastating earthquake, some 500,000 people remain displaced and too many communities remain at-risk.  Hunger is a big issue for Haitians today. Here are some pertinent facts concerning the food […]

Frida and I want to thank our remarkable Community of Compassion for all your support and generous donations for this year in particular. We have such dedication and love to help us help more children each and every year. We also want to thank the many children that we have had the blessing to be […]