Apopo Us Inc.

“The form 990 is reviewed by the ceo and outsourced accountant, before it is filed with the internal revenue service.”

“At the first board meeting of every year, we review the policy and everyone states whether or not they have a conflict of interest previously recognized.”

“The ceos compensation is reviewed and approved by the board of directors.”

“The staff compensation is reviewed and approved by ceo and the board of directors.”

“The form 990 is available upon request.”

“Program description continued this prevents accidents and quickly returns land to communities for development and sustenance, at a fraction of the cost, leaving funds to address yet more areas. Apopo technical survey dogs or hero dogs complement the rats by more cost efficiently finding the boundaries of a minefield, without the need for vegetation cutting, accelerating apopo overall landmine detection progress. In 2024 apopo continued to conduct mine and explosive ordinance clearance in cambodia and angola as well as opened new programs in azerbaijan, senegal and ukraine. The organization released over 15 million total m2 of land given back to local communities, helping 50k people return to their lands and lives free from the threat of mines. In cambodia, apopo herorats and hero dogs proved their incredible speed and cost effectiveness, helping apopo launch the first ever development impact bond linking mine action and agriculture development. Animal integration with manual demining teams were able to clear land at five times the pace, and less than half the cost of manual deminer only demining teams. By the end of 2024 apopo mine action teams were working in 7 countries across the world argentina, cambodia, angola, ukraine, senegal, azerbaijan, and zimbabwe. Apopo expects continued growth of its mine action program, particularly in ukraine which greatly needs cost-efficient landmine detection solutions, but maybe challenged by recent cuts in core donor international development funding, including in the us and europe. Apopo tb detection programs work with over 140 partner clinics in tanzania, and ethiopia and supports them to find and treat more tb patients. For this, human sputum samples are collected from partner clinics that have already tested them for tb, mostly using sputum smear microscopy. At apopo labs the samples are made safe and rapidly rechecked by trained tb detection rats followed by who-endorse confirmation tests. Confirmed results are instantly sent back to the clinics that oversee patient counselling and treatment. Apopo raises partner clinic tb detection rates by 40 apopo tuberculosis detection programs continued to have a significant impact in 2024. Apopo detected over 3,000 additional tb patients in tanzania, ethiopia, and mozambique. This means that more tb-positive people who have been missed by public clinics are not put on life-saving treatment before they can infect other people and prolong the vicious cycle of tb. . In 2024, apopo training teams continued to develop rats to for search and rescue and to detection illegal wildlife contraband. Apopo began set up of a dedicated facility for search and rescue rats in turkey and conducted a 6 month operational trial of illegal wildlife contraband detection rats in the air and seaport of dar es salaam. Apopo expects both of these trials to be fully operational in late 2025 or early 2026.”

“No change from prior year.”