By Emma McEachan | Fundraising Officer
It's time for your HeroRAT update!
The Goldman Sachs Gives rat continues to do well in the field with some great numbers for the second quarter of the year 2018.
In the months of April to June your HeroRAT cleared a whopping 5820 square meters of land in 19 days. Working a total of 839 minutes across the quarter, they discovered 2 AP directional mines and 1 item of unexploded ordonnance.
It's thanks to the work by your HeroRAT that we're able to continue our life-saving work in Cambodia where at least 26 million explosive sub-munitions were dropped during the Vietnam War, mostly in eastern and north-eastern areas bordering the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam. The bombing is estimated to have left between 1.9 million and 5.8 million cluster munitions remnants.
Over 64,000 landmine and other Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) casualties have been recorded in Cambodia since 1979; with over 25,000 amputees, Cambodia has the highest ratio of mine amputees per capita in the world.
With their sensitive nose, the Goldman Sachs Gives rat can check the area of a tennis court in just 30 minutes, a job that would take a deminer with a metal detector up to four days.
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