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Denmark Against Landmines invited the HeroRATS of APOPO to come to the Roskilde Festival.The Roskilde Festival Charity Society (the association behind Roskilde Festival) donates all profits from the festival directly to humanitarian and cultural causes, and APOPO was selected as this years featured organization.

APOPO and the mine detection rats were the subject of a long discussion of Tanzanian Parliament last week! From the article: "Mr. Masoud brought up the HeroRATS and wanted to know what the government had done in recognition of the efforts of the SUA experts who discovered the usefulness of the rats."

Alberto Jorge Zacaris is 30 years old and the father of two
children. He is from the Imhambane Province, situated in the southern part of Mozambique. He now works as an APOPO rat trainer on demining missions in Mozambique.

APOPO showcased the TB project to the scientific community at Tanzania’s regional conference of the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) hosted jointly by UNESCO and International Union of Geological Science (IUGS) in Ngurdoto, Arusha May 9-10, 2008. Harold Mangesho and Stephen Mwimwanzi, along with 2 HeroRATS, represented the APOPO TB project well and were delighted at the opportunity to show the guest of honor, President Jakaya Kikwete how sniffer rats detect positive TB samples.

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.

“I believe that ordinary people can make a difference on a global scale,” said Dr. Warkentin. Three stories of people who exemplify Dr. Warkentin’s message, that everyone is capable of making a change in the world, are featured on his Web site Laptops, Rats, and Taxis.