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APOPO and the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg were awarded a grant by Volkswagen Foundation to host a workshop from June 20 – 25th entitled “The Power of Scents: Olfactory Research from Innovation to Application and Validation” at APOPO’s Training and Innovation headquarters in Tanzania, which was simultaneously streamed online. This event brought together around 55 key experts […]

This was an exciting weekend for APOPO’s Training and Innovation Center in Tanzania as a group of 20 landmine detection rats boarded their first international flight for Cambodia. The training teams in Morogoro have been working hard to equip the rats with the skills they need to become HeroRATs. It takes 9 months to a

A year of growth and expansion. For the past two years, we have all faced the unprecedented challenge of a global pandemic that has not spared any country, community or family. A semblance of normal life has resumed at a time when the world is facing more armed conflict than ever before, and when the

People’s Postcode Lottery Charity Gala 2022 On Monday, May 16th, the People’s Postcode Lottery hosted their 12th annual and biggest ever Charity Gala in Edinburgh. Over 600 people, including charity partners and Postcode Lottery winners, attended this annual event celebrating the achievements of the charities and ‘good causes‘ that received more than £173 million in

GICHD field tests show promising results. APOPO is perhaps best known for having developed an innovative method to train African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis using their extraordinary sense of smell. With decades of experience in training rodents, the organization further expanded to training canines in 2017, when APOPO opened a dog

World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2022 This World TB Day, APOPO renews its commitment to work harder and save more lives but challenges its supporters and the public at large to invest in TB activities especially in high burden countries like Tanzania, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. If we want to see a world free of TB by

Official Belgian NGO status. APOPO went through the rigorous process of formal accreditation by the Belgian government for official Belgian NGO status. We were thrilled to pass various criteria and underwent an organizational audit of our management capacities. This audit was conducted in the first quarter of 2021 by Ernst & Young (EY) and took

Empowering women for a sustainable tomorrow. Today on International Women’s Day, APOPO is proud to celebrate the strength and resilience of women and the hard work and dedication of its female staff around the world.  APOPO incorporates and promotes the inclusion of women among its staff at all levels and their participation in setting priorities and

Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration. World Wildlife Day takes place on March 3 every year and celebrates the diversity of life on our planet at some of the most important global events dedicated to the conservation and safeguarding of wildlife. This is also closely related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 1, 6, 12, 13 and 15, and their varied