Barco’s Nightingales Foundation partners with a number of nonprofits, like ReSurge International, in an effort to improve lives around the world.

We have been blessed to work with and come to know some amazing people this year.

Congratulations to nurses in the United States! In the most recent Gallup Poll on Honesty and Ethics in Professions, results of which were released on Monday, December 16, 2013, nurses are again rated at the top of the list! 82% of American adults rate the honesty and ethical standards of nurses as either “high” or “very high.”

As a nurse, you know there is always plenty of work to do.  Today, there are over three million registered nurses in the United States, it is the largest health care profession in the country (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012).  It is also perhaps, one of the more stressful careers in the country, and as such, […]

We received this amazing expression of gratitude and were moved to show you the difference we are making with your  support.  The slides, when viewed in order, tell a moving story.

In developing countries where many villages are off the electrical grid, and fossil fuels for generators are too expensive, water wells operated by solar powered pumps are the only viable alternative to gaining a clean, healthy water supply.  Because the water is so far underground, these wells need pumps, powered by solar energy, to bring […]

Dear Michael, I want to thank you again for all your support for the Nurses for Edna team who worked in Somaliland this fall.  Your support of this project has been invaluable and we at One Nurse At A Time can’t thank you enough. In August 2013, Wanda Chestnut, Kim Law and Kerra Plesko, three […]

This story is from a report we received from ReSurge International showing the impact of our contributions to their efforts.  We found it inspiring and delightful. For these two young girls, recovering from free reconstructive surgery did not have to be serious business. After spending a week in the pediatric recovery ward together, Thi Lien […]

Our grandchildren Dylan, 10, and Mia, 7, were inspired at the recent Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times gala to do something special for each of the 600 children who will be attending the 2014 summer sessions.  They are working together to make a bracelet (below) for each of them, which they will personally deliver […]

Did you know that according to World Health Organization “water scarcity affects one in three people on every continent of the globe. The situation is getting worse as needs for water rise along with population growth, urbanization and increases in household and industrial uses.” At Barco’s Nightingales Foundation we are committed to bringing new solar […]