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MORE ABOUT the GCEF
Sending girls to school - Securing healthy futures
The Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF), a signature initiative of Florence Nightingale International Foundation (FNIF), supports the primary and secondary schooling of girls under the age of 18 in developing countries, whose nurse parent or parents have died. Sadly, this number continues to rise. Your donation to the Girl Child Education Fund will go towards school fees, uniforms, shoes and books and ensure the primary and secondary education of girls who would otherwise not be able to go to school.
Through the GCEF the orphaned daughters of nurses in developing countries are getting back to school. We work in partnership with The International Council of Nurses’ member National Nurses Associations, to ensure that the money goes directly to education costs. Every girl in our program is paired with a nurse volunteer to monitor her progress at school and at home.
What do the GCEF girls have to say?
This program is my mother and my father, it means everything to me. (Joy 9, Kenya)
The future is promising because the GCEF came into existence and my dreams will be accomplished. (Jennifer 14, Swaziland)
What I love about this programme is that we as girls would continue our education and not drop out of school. I would like to see the programme help other girls like me who will need help. And I wanted to say thanks for everything you people have done for me and what you people are doing to encourage girl child education. (Mathilda 11, Uganda)
This programme is the reason I am in school and why I am where I am because, trust me, when I lost my father in my primary everything seemed to have come to an end. If I am to tell anyone about this I would say this is the reason I am in school. It is the reason why I am where I am today via my academics and my school and my future at large. (Catherine 15, Zambia)
What the guardians and teachers have to say
It has relieved me from the burden of thinking of what the future holds for her and how I was going to be able to scout for funds to cater for her financially.
Now that she has been in the programme for two years I can see a bright future for the child as she will manage to finish school/education. There are changes since she has joined the programme: her performance at school is promising, and she is a happy girl as she knows that the programme is meeting her needs.
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Florence Nightingale
In Support of the Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF)
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This beautiful fully jointed teddy bear has been hand made with care by the Great British Teddy Bear Company. Florence is 34cm tall and wears a miniature of the blue and white dress once worn by ‘Nightingale nurses’, and carries a replica of her famous lamp. Her khaki canvas bag holds three little bandages so that she can nurse any injured toys she meets as she travels the globe raising valuable funds for the Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF).
The ICN.FNIF Florence Nightingale Teddy Bear is being sold in support of the GCEF, which provides for the primary and secondary schooling of the orphaned daughters of nurses in developing countries, paying for school fees, uniforms, shoes and books. We will deliver your Florence Nightingale Bear anywhere in the world within 5 days.
The Florence Nightingale Teddy Bear conforms to all International Toy Safety regulations and is suitable for all aspiring nurses 3 years and above.
© ICN-International Council of Nurses
MORE ABOUT the GCEF
Sending girls to school - Securing healthy futures
The Girl Child Education Fund (GCEF), a signature initiative of Florence Nightingale International Foundation (FNIF), supports the primary and secondary schooling of girls under the age of 18 in developing countries, whose nurse parent or parents have died. Sadly, this number continues to rise. Your donation to the Girl Child Education Fund will go towards school fees, uniforms, shoes and books and ensure the primary and secondary education of girls who would otherwise not be able to go to school.
Through the GCEF the orphaned daughters of nurses in developing countries are getting back to school. We work in partnership with The International Council of Nurses’ member National Nurses Associations, to ensure that the money goes directly to education costs. Every girl in our program is paired with a nurse volunteer to monitor her progress at school and at home.
What do the GCEF girls have to say?
This program is my mother and my father, it means everything to me. (Joy 9, Kenya)
The future is promising because the GCEF came into existence and my dreams will be accomplished. (Jennifer 14, Swaziland)
What I love about this programme is that we as girls would continue our education and not drop out of school. I would like to see the programme help other girls like me who will need help. And I wanted to say thanks for everything you people have done for me and what you people are doing to encourage girl child education. (Mathilda 11, Uganda)
This programme is the reason I am in school and why I am where I am because, trust me, when I lost my father in my primary everything seemed to have come to an end. If I am to tell anyone about this I would say this is the reason I am in school. It is the reason why I am where I am today via my academics and my school and my future at large. (Catherine 15, Zambia)
What the guardians and teachers have to say
It has relieved me from the burden of thinking of what the future holds for her and how I was going to be able to scout for funds to cater for her financially.
Now that she has been in the programme for two years I can see a bright future for the child as she will manage to finish school/education. There are changes since she has joined the programme: her performance at school is promising, and she is a happy girl as she knows that the programme is meeting her needs.
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