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...
10 10 2019 | PIROI, Show, Uncategorized
From 14 to 19 September, Mauritius Red Cross and its Rodrigues branch worked with the local community of Port-Sud-Est to increase its resilience to natural disasters. PIROI supports the Indian Ocean National Societies in implementing Vulnerability...
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...
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...
