Pilot Program in India
In February 2013, AFC Founder, Terri Wingham, launched a pilot program, in New Delhi, India, joined by 12 people impacted by cancer from the United States and Canada. Together, they set out to test the concept of international volunteering as a way to help those impacted by cancer redefine their lives.
Based on the success of the pilot program, Terri created A Fresh Chapter (AFC) as a non-profit and began to build out a team dedicated to expanding the vision. For the next several years, AFC continued to run programs in India, expanded to South Africa in 2015, and in 2016, new programs were added in the United States and Peru – including A Fresh Chapter’s first partnered program with Eli Lilly & Company.
In addition, a framework of tools, resources, and support was developed to expand the program into a robust multi-week experience – delivered both online and onsite. In 2019, AFC expanded to Kenya with its first Elevate Program where U.S. and Kenyan cancer survivors and advocates came together with a vision to adapt AFC’s methodology to a new cultural context.
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