with TD and RBC Royal Banks, as well as helped not-for-profit organizations like Dignitas International, the Ontario Association of Health Care Centres and Plan Canada establish effective branding and fundraising strategies. She moved to Port Hope in 2014, and her two teenaged sons attend Trinity College School.

While she enjoyed her work in the private sector, Lancaster knew she would eventually like to use her skills in the non-profit sector. She was aware of the work Amref did bringing health care to remote areas. Amref Health Africa has been around for 60 years, but many people may not know about the work the organization does, said Lancaster. They started with three doctors flying in to rural areas in Africa to provide health care in 1956. At that time, theredirectly reach 1.7 million women, children and men across 20 districts in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania. The partners are working together with African communities to improve the delivery of essential health services to moms, pregnant women, newborns and children under the age of five; increase the use of these improved health services; and improve the availability of nutritious foods and supplements. Amref is currently fundraising for the remainder of the project funding.

Amref is commemorating their 60th anniversary with a fundraising campaign to train more community health workers in the area of maternal and child health, along with sexual and reproductive health and rights. The community health workers are appointed by the community and trained by Amref to go to door-to-door to bring health-care information.

Working in the area