APOPO News

Thanks to the U.S. and Swiss Governments, APOPO has been busy clearing a vitally important eco-tourism and conservation area of deadly landmines since early 2021. Charles Richter, APOPO’s US Director, has served as the primary manager of the U.S. State Departments grant to the project (to date $1.5M). Charles visited the Zimbabwe project in June […]

Dog Handler Training Course On the 23rd of July, nine APOPO trainees successfully completed their 14-week Mine Detection & Technical Survey Dog handler course. The training was held at APOPO’s Dog Center in Cambodia, led by APOPO Head Dog Trainer Ibrahim Tinjak, assisted by the dog training center staff and in collaboration with the Cambodian

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