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Fair Future Foundation is a Swiss international humanitarian organisation founded in 2006. Fair Future and all its friends offer help and assistance to populations, communities, families, and individuals whose life and health are threatened by disease, food or water shortage, pandemic, epidemic, or natural disasters. Next: Malaria in East Sumba.
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Medicines and medical equipment are sorely lacking to treat sick children here.
General medicines available are scarce and those to treat malaria and the epidemic associated with it are non-existent. Our medical teams – but also local medical centres – are running out of medicines. From then on, caring for and caring for many patients becomes extremely difficult, and giving appropriate treatment is impossible.
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Fair Future is a Swiss, International, independent, socio-medical non-profit organization working in the rural areas of Indonesia to provide support and relief.
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Wherever Fair Future operates, the cases and the environment are unique. Nonetheless, we follow a standard set of practices designed to ensure that our resources and expertise are used optimally and respectfully.
Fair Future is a recognised Swiss organisation of a pure public utility that provides and offers social, medical and infrastructural assistance to communities, families and individuals affected by poverty, health crises, epidemics, disasters and shortages of food or water. But also the exclusion of healthcare and any social or economic assistance.
Our collaborators are “Kawan Baik” (good friends), comprised of villagers, social logisticians, health professionals, logistics and technical staff in the field, and specialists in water, agriculture and administration.
All good friends are hired locally. This is so that all actors and beneficiaries can recognise themselves and identify with how things are done. Above all, all actions implemented, created and carried out are guided by local cultural, social and medical ethics.
One of the philosophical bases of our work in the field is that the beneficiaries themselves are the builders of each program put in place by Fair Future. This provides them with an income, the opportunity to learn, and, above all, to make new friends.
The principles of knowledge sharing, neutrality, impartiality, justice and independence permeate everything we do every day.
By the way, do you know what Kawan Baik means? Nope? So click here to find out Kawan!
What does Kawan Baik mean?
So many people ask us what "Kawan" or "Kawan Baik" means... Reading the pages of our site, or the newsletter that Fair Future sends you a maximum of twice a month, you will wonder why we call you "Kawan" all the time. It's a good question and we totally understand that it's a bit of a mystery to all of you. Let's take three minutes, I'll tell you what it means "Kawan" friends.
So here's the explanation: "Kawan" means "friend" in Indonesian. When you add "Baik" to it, it means "my good friend". It's simple, isn't it?
For us, you are -Kawan+your name-, and you are part of all of us because, without you, nothing would be possible. I give you an example: I'm Kawan Alex founder of Fair Future and Kawan Ayu is the founder of Kawan Baik Indonesia.
That's what we all call ourselves here, and so you have your first Indonesian lesson Kawan!
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List of drugs we need to buy
To make it simple and short, we urgently need a lot of medicines (see the list attached in the post) and sanitary equipment such as antiseptics, dressings and other small miscellaneous equipment. Indeed, friends, all our stocks are almost finished because we have prescribed or used everything, which is a good thing. On the other hand and from tomorrow, we can no longer treat patients except for simple problems that do not require medical treatment.
We urgently need anti-malaria drugs!
Fair Future issues an intense red alert linked to the case of malaria, which is reaching a critical level here in East Sumba, Indonesia. For weeks, thousands of malaria cases have been recorded here in East Sumba. This figure is nevertheless to be taken conditionally because, in many villages, people do not have an identity card or a family book or do not have access to medical care, so they are sick in silence.
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We estimate that every franc invested in water and toilets saves four francs in medical costs, avoids deaths and increases productivity. Hygiene promotion is considered one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Conversely, a lack of sanitation hampers economic growth.
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Within the framework of more than ten types of actions, including medical care, access to a better life, giving chances for a healthier life, construction of schools, and education of children and adults, Fair Future assists in humanitarian action aimed at saving lives, and families, villages and communities.
Women, children and water at home
Indonesian women play a vital role in water management due to their traditional responsibilities of collecting water, cooking, cleaning and raising children. These women from these ultra-rural areas of eastern Indonesia are strong. They represent tremendously well the strength and the courage it takes to survive here in this vast country. To fend for themselves most of the time, without the help of others, to meet the family’s most basic needs. Therefore, empowering women to increase water security is essential in the regions where we work. With climate change affecting water sources, it is vital to ensure that women are involved in water management decisions. This allows (we see this every day) families and local communities to improve their incomes and the health of family members, including their children.
Primary medical care training for 60 teachers
Whether a minor skin injury or a severe life-threatening injury, all types of damage should be treated with first aid on the spot without delay, as it may save a life or a limb. Teachers in the poorest and most rural areas learn this with Fair Future’s medical teams. Since November 2022, Fair Future Switzerland has taken a new step in the primary medical care program for children in ultra-rural areas here in East Sumba. The first two training modules for rural school teachers took place during the second week of December. It was a considerable success since more than sixty teachers were present for this first session.
Do you have medical equipment, clothes, and medicine? Could you bring them to us here?
Extract and Description of this short News | As part of the departure of the Truck of Life – week #2 of December 2022 – for Sumba East and our Medical-Social Base Camp, we still have a little space available to load equipment such as Medical equipment, medicines and clothes for children and newborns that you no longer use. You can bring all of this to us at the foundation headquarters (see the link here to find us in Denpasar). Here is a list of medicines and other materials you need to bring to Rumah Baik, Denpasar Selatan. Thank you very much for your support Kawan,
Kawan Sehat, the full book for a healthier life
The Foundation has created an illustrated book for the young in the ultra-rural areas of eastern Indonesia. Where knowing how to read and write is not shared. It will serve as a reference book and gather most of the information on a better lifestyle, the tips and tricks that are “normal” but that most don’t know here. Here it is in its preview version. There are still about ten pages missing in the process of colouring.
Together we can make it
Let’s do it together and hold hands to reach the moon. Ensure that the primary medical care program for children can continue as the needs are enormous here in eastern Indonesia. Malaria is ravaging, expectations are high, and we lack the means to buy medical equipment, medicines and everything they all need to get better…
Malaria outbreak in East Sumba, Indonesia
Malaria is one of the most severe public health problems in the world. Here in Indonesia, and especially in the eastern regions, it is one of the leading causes of death and disease. Children under five years old and pregnant women are the most affected groups. The problem in East Sumba is the staggering rate of cases affecting families and the anti-malaria drugs that are unavailable or too expensive.
8 billion equal people? What about the food?
Eight billion people on earth: Are we going to starve? On the one hand, there is population growth. On the other, the world’s resources make it possible to feed human beings. How to reconcile the two? Today and tomorrow, will we all be able to provide for ourselves?
Consuming unsafe water can look like this!
In these few images taken at the end of October 2022, in a village in East Sumba, more than a hundred people have access to this unique water source. A well was dug by hand more than ten years ago and is almost always dry. People have to queue to get a few litres of water that is totally unfit for consumption and dangerous to their health.
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Are you a school or a teacher? Or active in the field of education? Maybe a journalist, a media? Fair Future offers unique content related to people's life, traditions and customs, to kill two birds with one stone: Helping and teaching.
To teach something else, to share the life of a class of children in rural Indonesia! Do you or your students have an idea for a medical-social assistance program that will undoubtedly improve their lives? And this idea is indeed good for sure. We want to open young people's minds and teach them that elsewhere, it's different.
Do you dream of it being implemented on behalf of all of you? Develop it with us in the field and develop a joint mutual aid action between you and them here.
Access to primary medical care in the most rural and poorest regions has always been at the centre of our priorities. For years, we have been helping and caring for families by implementing totally innovative means and programs in public health. Some are unique in the world in their mode of implementation.
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Your donations finance the programs initiated by Fair Future. A nail, a screw, a roof, drinking water, healthy meals, minor surgery, medical care, school notebooks, shoes, a solar lamp and so many other things every year.
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Patients, women, children, families who have received benefits
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Invested in social, medical, logistical programs in rural areas
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Litres of clean, non-lethal water were found and offered to people
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Hours of work carried out for the projects carried out by the teams
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in 2022? More patients, more projects, more requests!
How your donations are used?
Your donations are used to distribute tons of food, medical treatment and infrastructure so we can finally access a better, healthier and more harmonious life in most rural regions.
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Please find out how, why we respond to different diseases and the challenges we face in providing treatment