APOPO's trained HeroRATs are saving lives and limbs, by using their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out unexploded landmines and tuberculosis.
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 clinics to offer TB screening to a population of 500,000 slum dwellers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
HeroRATS are currently working in Mozambique and have helped over 300 families return to their daily lives free from the terror of landmines. Weekly, they also identify an average of 5-10 patients with active TB that were missed at the clinics.
This project will allow families to return to their homes, reclaim their land, and live freely from the terror 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
Total Funding Received to Date: $192,767
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $57,232
Total Funding Goal: $250,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
Antwerpen,
Belgium
http://www.apopo.org and http://www.herorat.org
Founder and Director
Sokoine University,
Morogoro
Tanzania, United Republic of
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