Red Cross launches disaster challenge board game |21 December 2017

The Red Cross recently launched a Disaster Challenge board game requiring players to answer questions related to natural disasters that may affect Seychelles.

The questions focus on knowledge of hazards and safety measures for reducing the risk of six main threats: Strong winds, flooding, landslide and rock fall, forest fires, drought and tsunami.

The game has attracted a lot of young people who want to test their knowledge and compete with their opponents at the game.

The Disaster Challenge game was one of the materials developed in the implementation of a Disaster Risk Reduction project ‘Toward Safer and Resilient Community’ funded by the European Union, the Reunion region with technical support from PIROI (Plateforme Intervention Regionale Ocean Indien).

Other activities carried out in the project have been an awareness workshop on disaster risk reduction, development of information materials and a contingency plan workshop that will guide the Red Cross in capacity building to face future disaster events. The final event to end the project is a Disaster Risk Reduction Information Kiosk, a timely event as Seychelles normally experiences climate events associated with heavy rainfall towards the end of the year.

The project manager Barbara Carolus-Andre says that the project was a boost to capacity development of the Red Cross for conducting DRR education and will have benefits for the schools and communities way beyond the project life.

She has thanked the sponsors, PIROI team and partners for their support and the Red Cross staff and volunteers for their contributions in the successful implementation of the project.