PARÉ PAS PARÉ PROJECT ANNIVERSARY EVENT - 24 JULY 2021 Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Paré Pas Paré [“Ready or not?”] project, PIROI will be organising a unique event to raise awareness about the risks related...
This year the French Red Cross Foundation will hold its annual international conference on 1 and 2 July in Reunion Island on the theme of “Humanitarian Transition in the Indian Ocean”. Co-organised with PIROI, the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), and the...
Since its creation in 2000, the Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform (PIROI) has placed particular emphasis on strengthening risk-related knowledge through awareness raising and education, risk governance and community resilience building. In this purpose,...
As part of its regional disaster risk management programme (DRM), PIROI organises an annual coordination workshop at the end of each cyclone season, inviting all PIROI-member National Societies (NSs) to share the preparedness and response activities they carried out...
The start of the 2020-2021 academic year saw the first intake of students for the Master’s Degree in Risks and Environment at the University of Reunion Island, in partnership with PIROI. Emma, one of the students and currently on a work-study programme at PIROI,...
Mount Nyiragongo, located near the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), started erupting on 22 May 2021 at 7pm local time. Two lava flows emerged from the volcano, one heading east towards Rwanda, and the other heading towards Goma,...
