HeroRATs: Sniffing Out Landmines and Tuberculosis

 
£164,494
£0
Raised
Remaining

Project Leader

Bart Weetjens
SUA-APOPO
PO Box 3078
Sokoine University, Morogoro
Tanzania, United Republic of
255754272572

Organization

APOPO vzw Logo

APOPO vzw
PO Box 3078
Morogoro, Tanzania 3078
Tanzania, United Republic of
+255 778 779 779
http://www.apopo.org

 

Project Personnel

Bart Weetjens - Founder

Bart is a product design engineer, focused on appropriate technologies for Africa. Together with his colleagues, he started the APOPO project, training African giant pouched rats to save human lives. Bart is also a practicing Zen Buddhist monk (Soto tradition). He lives and works with his wife and children in Tanzania since 2000.

Christophe Cox - CEO

Christophe is a product design engineer with a long experience in East Africa. He specialized in explosives vapor detection technologies. He developed the HeroRATS technology, which is now endorsed by 11 governments in the African Great Lakes Region. Christophe lives and works with his wife and children in East Africa sine 1992.

 

Funded

Thanks to 4,673 donors like you, a total of £164,494 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.

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Organization

APOPO vzw
APOPO vzw

Morogoro, Tanzania, Tanzania, United Republic of
http://www.apopo.org

Project Leader

Bart Weetjens

Sokoine University, Morogoro Tanzania, United Republic of

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