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Who is doing the most good in the world, and how? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by fiat_lux@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My feed is filled with bad news, which is my fault for using the fediverse as a news feed, but it made me wonder: Which organisations, groups or individual people in the world are doing the most good for our world? I'm particularly interested in those who manage to do good on a larger impact scale (quantity or quality), but if the unknown person on your street who fosters kittens is a great example, I'd love to hear about them too.

Mr. Rogers told me to look for the helpers in times of trouble. Tell me about your favorite helpers!

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Herorats who are rats, that are trained to sniff out and locate landmines and tuberculosis.

Apparently there are only 200 of them, could use a whole lot more around the world.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting combination. Is there some similarity between landmines and tuberculosis that make them easier to detect?

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I think there are landmine Herorats and TB Herorats, that have seperate jobs.

I'm pretty sure I heard of Golden Retrievers being used to sniff out TB also.

Any animal with a sufficiently capable sense of smell could probably be used. Rats are lighter weight for use around landmines, and generally cheaper to feed than dogs.