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By Dr. Lena Fiebig | APOPO Head of TB World Environment Day 2020 We are pleased to announce that APOPO’s Training and Research Center in Tanzania starts the new decade solar-powered! Thanks to the generous support of the Embassy of Poland four 275-Watt solar panels from the local provider Ensol now crown our office buildings on […]

International Nurses Day 2020 International Nurses Day is celebrated every May 12. The anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, British social reformer, statistician and founder of modern nursing. She was born in 1820. This year, on the 200th anniversary, the nursing profession gets some of the due attention and recognition since nurses are contemporary

Can our African giant pouched rats be trained to detect COVID-19? As COVID-19 continues to spread, these are challenging times for us all. Right now, we’re doing everything possible to sustain daily operations and provide services to our community. While there’s a lot of uncertainty, we know that we need to adapt fast to our

By Håvard Bach | Head of APOPO Mine Action International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. Mine Action clears paths and creates safe ground on which homes can be built and land can be cultivated. It gives new horizons and hope to the 60 million people worldwide living at risk in vulnerable communities.

By Dr. Lena Fiebig | APOPO Head of TB It’s high time to fight tuberculosis and COVID-19. Normally, this would have been the day to stress the massive global tuberculosis (TB) burden and the need to find and treat all patients with TB. This would also have been the time to celebrate the TB detection rats journey

Raising awareness to protect wild fauna and flora. On March 3rd 1973, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was drafted and signed with the objective to conserve wildlife and prevent international trade from pushing species into extinction. Since 2013, the date has designated as World Wildlife Day, representing

APOPO attend NDM-UN in Geneva, Switzerland. The 23rd International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and UN Advisers (NDM-UN23) was held from 11 to 14 February 2020 at the United Nations Office in Geneva. The discussions were guided by the theme “Mine Action for People and Planet: Solutions, Commitments and Action.” Over 500 participants attended the meeting, including National Directors

Today is New Year’s Eve. The new Chinese year – the Year of the Rat – begins tomorrow, on Saturday 25th of January 2020, with festivities kicking off tonight and continuing until the 15th day, when the Lantern Festival takes place. Today as families and friends across the world sit down to eat dinner together and gift

Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) signs MoU for 2021 Yesterday on December 10th, APOPO Cambodia Program 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 Mine detection Rat (MDR) and CMAC mine clearance operations in Cambodia in 2021.   APOPO works to