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Apopo is happy to announce it is the recipient of a three-year, $1,000,000 award from the Skoll Foundation to further sustainable growth of the APOPO organization and its activities in Africa. The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship is presented by the Skoll Foundation to recognize the most innovative and sustainable approaches to resolving the most urgent social issues.

HeroRATs are the featured cause for the July Just 1 Click Campaign organized by Youth Noise. For each click Youth Noise will donate $.01 cents up to $1,000 for 100,000+ clicks. Each person can click once each day until the end of the campaign- we invite you to share the link with your friends and family and help us meet our goal of over 100,000 clicks this month.

APOPO President Mic Billet and co-worker Patricia Van de Velde were pleased to meet Jane Goodall at her lecture "Reason for Hope" at the University of Antwerp. Jane Goodall is a renowned primatologist who did many years of research about chimpanzee behavior. Goodall is an avid and cherished supporter of APOPO and believes in the HeroRats and the changes they can make. She even made a video with Animal Planet when she visited our training center in Tanzania.

The International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) held a five-day workshop on peace and security, in Kampala, Uganda April 21st -25th, 2008. Christophe Cox presented a proposal for APOPO to be a major part of the demining activities that the ICGLR has planned along the boarder zones of the Great Lakes Region. The demining efforts would trace the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, stretching all the way to the tip of Sudan. The conference is expected to address the proposals submitted later this year.