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....
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...
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...
