Nos Actualités
7th edition of the International Conference of the French Red Cross Foundation : “Humanitarian transition in the Indian Ocean area”
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...
PIROI produces a methodological guide for disaster risk education in SIDS
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,...
PIROI Regional Strategic Coordination Workshop
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...
First year of the Master’s Degree in Risks and Environment from the University of Reunion
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 eruption in DRC: PIROI provides emergency supplies
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,...
“Paré pas Paré” project: raising public awareness to fight COVID-19
Ever since it was launched in 2011, the Paré pas Paré project has been active in Reunion Island, raising awareness about natural and health hazards. In response to the challenges since 2020 due to COVID-19, awareness-raising activities with a focus on health risks...
Online Training: Distance Learning Method
Ever since the start of the health crisis, PIROI has been exploring solutions to continue providing training, and has been experimenting with distance learning. This online approach was undertaken in partnership with the Bioforce Institute for the “Creating and...
New disaster risk management project in Mozambique
The French Red Cross (FRC) has established a permanent delegation in Mozambique at Luabo District, Zambezia province to support Mozambique Red Cross (CVM) development work there. FRC-PIROI’s Mozambique delegation will allow a new project to be implemented,...
Innovative phosphorescent shelters ensure safer communities
The PIROI Center advocates using ground-breaking methods and solutions to improve the quality of assistance to local populations. Its work in this field has included supporting the development and testing of Sollune phosphorescent shelters in a given community....
French Red Cross is helping to fight the second wave of COVID-19 in the Comoros
Since mid-December 2020 the Union of the Comoros has been faced with an increasing number of COVID-19 cases. The French Red Cross, through PIROI and its permanent delegation in the Comoros, has been responding to this second wave across the nation’s three islands. ...
Tropical Storm CHALANE highlights the importance of disaster preparedness
CHALANE was the 4th system of the 2020-2021 south-west Indian Ocean cyclone season to be monitored by the region’s weather services. It posed a potentially serious threat to several nearby countries, leading to immediate mobilisation by PIROI and its partners. After...
Sign up for the new training: “Basic Knowledge and Barrier Gestures – COVID-19”.
Since March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has been raging in Reunion Island.To stop the spread of the virus and to protect the population of Reunion Island, the PIROI implements, through its project Paré pas Paré, a free training on Covid-19 and the implementation of...