APOPO Stories

Lisa Rand from the Progressive School of Long Island Lisa was well versed on the ability of rats as her daughter had pet rats growing up and in fact, Lisa adopted one of APOPO’s HeroRATs for her daughter as a gift! Lisa is a sixth-grade teacher at The Progressive School of Long Island in Merrick,

Author, Corine Timmer wanted to donate proceeds of her book to our HeroRATs! Corine Timmer is a renowned writer, living in rural Portugal with nine street dogs and other animals. Her short-form poetry has been published in respected print and web haiku journals and anthologies. During the past five years, her haiku, photo haiku and

Shae and friends hike for HeroRATs! Shae and other students at Nørre Gymnasium in Copenhagen decided to fundraise for charity as part of their CAS project (contributing towards their International Baccalaureate). The team quickly decided that they wanted to raise money for APOPO’s HeroRATs by undertaking a huge 116-kilometer hike from Copenhagen to Malmö. No

Textile designer, Patrick was opposed to landmines and fond of rats and knew the perfect way to fundraise for us! Textile designer, Patrick Moriarty discovered APOPO online. and having always been opposed to landmines and fond of the rat species, he decided he would raise money through his textiles for APOPO! Patrick had been planning

Matt and friends took on a 25km hike in aid of our HeroRATs! Having kept rats as a child, when Matt saw APOPO’s HeroRATs on Facebook one day, the cause really caught his eye! Matt immediately started following our HeroRATs on social media and last year, Matt decided he wanted to fundraise for our HeroRATs

¡La sección del zoo de Staten Island de la Asociación Americana de Cuidadores de Zoos (SIZ AAZK) recauda fondos para nuestros HeroRATs! La sección del zoo de Staten Island de la Asociación Americana de Cuidadores de Zoológicos (SIZ AAZK) recauda fondos regularmente para organizaciones conservacionistas y sin ánimo de lucro, normalmente las que apoyan a

Staten Island Zoo’s chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers (SIZ AAZK) fundraises for our HeroRATs! Staten Island Zoo’s chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers (SIZ AAZK) regularly fundraises for conservation organizations and non-profits, usually those that support animals that are housed at the Staten Island Zoo. Jessica Hartmann, Vice President of SIZ AAZK,