International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM. Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the U.N. Agenda for Sustainable Development. That means closing the gender gap and getting more women working […]
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International Day of Education. Since 2018 when the United Nations (UN) General Assembly announced the 24th of January as International Day of Education, this day has served as an opportunity to remember that education is an engine for poverty eradication and a force for peace. It is also a day to reflect on how APOPO advances UN Sustainable Development
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A hero is laid to rest. It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news that HeroRAT Magawa passed away peacefully this weekend on the night of January 8th, 2022. Magawa was in good health and spent most of last week playing with his usual enthusiasm, but towards the weekend he started
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MOU signed for 2022 Yesterday on December 16th, APOPO Asia Regional Manager, Michael Heiman and CMAC Director-General, His Excellency Heng Ratana, met in Phnom Penh to sign the memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the continuation of APOPO’s animal detection systems being integrated into CMAC mine clearance operations in Cambodia in 2022. More than half of
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Improving food security and wildlife conservation. Harare, Zimbabwe – Switzerland, through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has provided US$1 million to APOPO Mine Action for clearing a dense minefield in the Sengwe Wildlife Corridor in southern Zimbabwe for the next two-years. The project aims to improve food security and wildlife conservation in the
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By Christophe Cox | CEO APOPO 3-day course in Tanzania in partnership with SAT This past weekend, APOPO organized the first-ever course in Syntropic Farming in Tanzania, from the 3rd to the 5th of December 2021. This initiative is part of the APOPO HeroTREEs project, and carried out in partnership with Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania. The course was
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Support for TB Tanzania to partner with more clinics. The APOPO Tuberculosis (TB) team in Dar es Salaam was delighted to host Ms Katarzyna Sobiecka, First Counsellor from the Embassy of the Republic of Poland to Tanzania at our TB Detection research facility on November 18th. Ms Sobiecka enjoyed a full tour of our detection rat research facility and discussed the
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Demining for development Thanks to the continued support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and U.S. Government, APOPO is now able to strengthen its activities in Zimbabwe, aiming to clear a dense minefield laid over four decades ago in one of the largest conservation areas in the world. APOPO has been tasked
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APOPO Cambodia Risk Education APOPO works quickly and cost-efficiently to make land safe by clearing landmines and other explosives, like cluster munitions, so families living near minefields can rebuild their lives and livelihoods in safety. It is vital that during that time we teach people how to stay safe. Risk education sets out to arm as many people as possible with potentially
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