By Emma Mortiboy | Public Fundraising
Warm greetings and welcome to your latest update on your generous support of the HeroRATs!
Your generosity in the last quarter has helped our HeroRATs sniff out 202 landmines, explosive remnants of war, and cluster munitions across their countries of deployment. As well as removing these deadly legacies, your support has released over 1.7 million square meters of land to local communities. Thank you!
Your support has allowed us to celebrate ten years of mine clearance in Cambodia, and, in the last quarter, we have also secured a new office for the Mine Action team. On Monday, October 14th, a ceremony was held to bless the new office for the team.
Our Visitor Center in Siem Reap, Cambodia has also welcomed record numbers of visitors, who have been delighted to watch our HeroRATs demonstrate their landmine detection skills. By visiting our Visitor Center, you gain valuable insight into the country's history and the huge successes of your support in Cambodia.
If you or someone you know is visiting Cambodia, do keep our Visitor Center in Siem Reap in mind - we would love to see and welcome you there!
In other news, our Research and Innovation team has been busy organizing the next stage of training for our RescueRATs. Our RescueRATs are ready for their next stage of development, and we launched a campaign to send our rats and the team to complete search trials in mock debris sites in Turkey in collaboration with the Search and Rescue organization, GEA. These trials will be used to test the rats’ ability to locate and indicate a mock victim and return to the basepoint upon cue in this location. The local GEA staff will also be oriented to our rats as well as our training and health and welfare practices.
The rats will then be deployed in search efforts alongside GEA in response to an earthquake to move onto the most critical part of this program – seeing them save lives in real-time.
You can find out more about our RescueRATs here: https://apopo.org/rescuerats
We hope you will consider supporting this important project!
In tuberculosis detection, our HeroRATs have continued their mission to quickly detect the disease so it can be treated quickly in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Our HeroRATs continue to detect, on average, 40% more cases of TB than microscopy alone.
Your support truly has achieved great things, and our teams of humans and animals thank you from around the world!
If you have any questions about our work, do not hesitate to contact me. In the meantime, we very much look forward to updating you next time!
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