Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: Training rats to save African Lives.
|
|
|
|
APOPO addresses the need for cheap, reliable and locally manageable demining detection services and Tuberculosis screening by training and providing HeroRATs. APOPO’s HeroRATs are currently working in Mozambique to offer villagers safe return to their homesteads, access to vital farmland, and open doors for essential infrastructure. APOPO also partners with DOTS Centers to offer second-line TB screening to a population of 500,000 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
|
|
|
|
HeroRATs are part of a Mine Action team in Mozambique and are working towards the goal of a mine impact free country. In Tanzania, HeroRATs find an average of 5-10 TB-positive patients each week that were missed by the hospitals. |
|
|
|
This project will allow families to return to their homes, reclaim and utilize their land, and live without fear of landmines. We will also screen the most vulnerable populations for TB, providing access to treatment and longer, healthier lives. |
|
|
I will be very happy if one day I see my village free from landmines.
- Solomon Chumule, Landmine victim and village elder from Mozambique
|
William Deed,
SUA-APOPO
PO Box 3078
Sokoine University, Morogoro
Tanzania, United Republic of
255754272572
|
|
|
|
|
