2 12 2019 | 2019, Disaster Preparedness, Union of the Comoros, Comoros Red Crescent, Show
On Wednesday 20 November 2019, the French Red Cross delegation in the Comoros and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed an agreement strengthening their community healthcare partnership. Comoros Red Crescent (CoRC) works actively in the Union of the Comoros in...
15 11 2019 | 2019, Mayotte, Union of the Comoros, PIROI, Show
Climate change is already having a visible impact on small islands states, as was recently demonstrated by cyclones . Given this state of affairs, the French Red Cross (FRC) – via PIROI and the Comoros Red Crescent (CoRC) – have launched a project to strengthen the...
15 11 2019 | 2019, PIROI, PIROI Center, Show
PIROI recently invited all of its programme members to review the past two years and define the goals for its upcoming programme. PIROI organised a meeting of all its partners on 29 and 30 October 2019 in Reunion Island. The Presidents and Secretaries-General of the...
23 10 2019 | 2019, Disaster Preparedness, Reunion, PIROI, Training, Uncategorized
As part of the ‘Inondation, Nout kartié lé paré’ flood awareness project, PIROI organised – ahead of the upcoming cyclone season – training on how to act in a flooded environment. Six one-day sessions were held from 16 to 22 October 2019. These 6 days of training...
3 09 2019 | "Paré pas Paré" project, 2019, Disaster Risk Reduction, Reunion, PIROI, Show
As Reunion has been experiencing a dengue epidemic since early 2018, the island’s Prefecture asked PIROI to help raise awareness of the disease amongst the local population, hoping to avoid an acceleration of the outbreak. The Paré pas Paré project team thus decided...
29 07 2019 | 2019, Mauritius, Disaster Risk Reduction, Indian Ocean Region, Show, Training
This week PIROI’s training centre organised its first regional training course on Vulnerability Capacity Assessment (VCA) methodology. The course was held Monday to Friday in Mauritius, and was attended by 19 participants from eight Red Cross and Red Crescent National...
