Professor Izabela Rzeznicka visited Botswana with outreach activities for the Africa-Japan Core Project

Outreach activities included: 1) a seminar talk at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology; 2) a lecture at the Senior Secondary High School in Selebi-Phikwe copper mining town; 3) a talk to Mmadinare Kgotla village community, a community highly impacted by mining activities. More than 100 pupils and students joined lectures and talks. After the lecture, Prof. Rzeznicka demonstrated 3D-printed model for smartphone-enabled detection of copper and talked with pupils about smartphone-enabled methods.
On the way back, Prof. Rzeznicka joined Africa-Japan researcher’s workshop in Maun, and on the behalf of the SusMine team presented research progress and summarized expected outcomes. She also introduced the smartphone-enabled methodology to the students in the Chemical Sciences Department at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. By sharing knowledge and know-how with youth in Africa we hope that in the near future smartphone-enabled analytics will offer better environmental monitoring and health for people living in remote and resource-poor areas in Africa and the world.
These efforts represent SIT's global contribution towards realization of  SDG#3 goal, good health and wellbeing for all and anywhere.