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Signing ceremony between CMAC and APOPO to support one year operation project

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Cambodia
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Govt. Cambodia
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Today, 10 December 2020 at CMAC’s Headquarters, the APOPO’s country resident representative (Michael) and H.E. Heng Ratana, Director Genaral of CMAC have signed a MoU as cooperations agreement to implement the project in 2021. APOPO provides financial contribution with total amount of USD318,606 for a 12 month period. CMAC and APOPO have worked together for almost 6 years now and jointly released over 12 square kilometers of landmines/ the remnants of war contaminated areas and found & destroyed almost 50,000 pieces of landmines/UXOs. With this grant, the project is going to release over 4 square kilometers of landmines/UXOs contamination areas by the end 2021. APOPO has also worked with CMAC on technical survey dogs and procurements of CMAC Detection Dogs for APOPO operates in other countries.