This Week, the consortium partners and the Volunteers deployed met in a final workshop to draw some conclusions of the intense activities that have seen committed in the past 15 months: 16 EU Aid volunteers, Civil Protection agencies of 2 Caribbean countries, CDEMA (the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency), CIMH (Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology), 7 Voluntary Organizations, CIMA Research Foundation and the Italian Department of Civil Protection as a leading partner.

Speakers included representatives from:

Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale (CIMA) – Italy
Associazione Nazionale Pubbliche Assistenze (ANPAS) – Italy Corpo Italiano di Soccorso dell’Ordine di Malta (CISOM) – Italy
Asociația Serviciul de Ajutor Maltez în România (SAMR) – Romania
Croce Rossa Italiana (CRI) – Italy
Societatea Națională de Cruce Rosie din România (CRR) – Romania
Magyar Máltai Szeretetszolgálat (MMSZ) – Hungary

Overseas partners:

The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)
The National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) of Grenada
The Department of Disaster Management of the British Virgin Islands (DDM)

And a rappresentative of DG ECHO.

Targets of the activities will be the most vulnerable communities of the states of Barbados and Grenada.

The Terms of Reference for Volunteers have been published and can be consulted here.