28 12 2021 | 2021, Health Risks, Indian Ocean Region, Comoros Red Crescent, French Red Cross, PIROI, Malagasy Red Cross, Mauritius Red Cross, Mozambique Red Cross, Show, Seychelles Red Cross, Tanzania Red Cross
To support COVID-19 response by south-west Indian Ocean National Societies, PIROI has sent a new shipment of 1,200,000 COVID-19 protection masks (surgical and cloth), 10,000 pairs of gloves, and 250 litres of sanitiser gel thanks to a donation from the French...
4 06 2021 | 2021, Disaster Preparedness, Comoros Red Crescent, French Red Cross, PIROI, Malagasy Red Cross, Mauritius Red Cross, Mozambique Red Cross, Show, Seychelles Red Cross, Tanzania Red Cross
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...
23 07 2020 | 2020, Mauritius, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, Disaster Risk Reduction, Seychelles, Union of the Comoros, Madagascar, Comoros Red Crescent, PIROI, PIROI Center, Malagasy Red Cross, Mauritius Red Cross, Show, Seychelles Red Cross
PIROI-member National Societies have received assistance with their disaster preparedness and response work for a number of years already. Until now most of this support has been provided at central level, with capacity-building focusing on Red Cross/Red Crescent head...
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...
9 08 2019 | Disaster Response, Union of the Comoros, Comoros Red Crescent, Show
Ngazidja is a volcanic island in the Comoros, an archipelago located in the Mozambique Canal. On the night of 24 April, this little-known island of the Indian Ocean was hit by Intense Tropical Cyclone Kenneth: the cyclone’s eye passed only 50 km off the coast....
19 07 2019 | 2019, Disaster Response, Union of the Comoros, Comoros Red Crescent, PIROI, Show
On the night of Wednesday 24 to Thursday 25 April 2019, tropical cyclone Kenneth swept past the Comoros archipelago, mainly affecting the island of Grande Comore and to a lesser extent the neighbouring islands of Anjouan and Mohéli. Given the large number of people...
