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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.
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The malaria epidemic here affects children under 5, pregnant women and people with low immunity.
The eastern regions of Indonesia where we are active are very affected by the malaria epidemic, it is a real health emergency because, in fact, no medical treatment or medicine is available locally. As part of the next departure of the Truck of Life, we want to provide the maximum, in order to treat people who, without appropriate treatment, risk losing their lives.
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Since November 2022, Fair Future Switzerland has taken a new step in this primary medical care program for children in ultra-rural regions.
We have worked in East Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), for four years. More particularly, East Sumba. It is officially the poorest region in all of Indonesia, one of the poorest in South East Asia. Where we have been operating since 2019, the region has a sad record: The highest rate of malnourished and starved children in Indonesia and possibly even Asia. Infant mortality is also terrible here.
As you may have read last week, we have planned to leave with the foundation's medical truck, the Truck of Life, in order to bring a lot of medical equipment, and drugs related to this program. This includes the finished book and all teaching materials used for the various on-site teacher training modules by our medical teams.
Furthermore, we wish, must, want to add a measure to combat the Malaria epidemic, which is seriously raging at the moment here (no problem for me, I have it at the moment, my seasonal crisis), and which affects about 70% of children under five and pregnant women.
We work very hard, but we need more.
We need to finance the purchase of more than a ton of medical equipment for the primary medical care program for children and many anti-malaria drugs because there are none on site. The infant mortality rate is very high, and kids are dying of Malaria for a lack of medicine.
Going back to the primary medical care program for rural kids and in short, people in rural villages do not have access to primary medical care (no water, electricity or food elsewhere, but we are changing that at our level). The "medical centres" are often several hours away on foot, when there are any.
The harshness of life here means that the kids in the rural areas are often injured, but nothing is available to treat them if someone from Fair Future is not on the spot. No doctor, knowledge, medical equipment and, of course, no antiseptic or medicine. These injuries can lead to the death of a child or an adult if they get worse. We must therefore act quickly.
This program's goal is to offer an emergency pharmacy for each rural school, training for each teacher, and a playful and highly educational booklet so that the kids understand the importance of taking care of themselves.
So if you feel like helping us by spreading the message around you, we can come up with something quickly because it is urgent.
And if you would like to donate in favour of the actions carried out by Fair Future on the ground, you have to click here. I appreciate any help you can provide.
Thank you with all our hearts
November 24, 2022, Alexandre Wettstein
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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!
Our pressing needs
Help us load the medical truck as much as possible for its next trip
As part of the project for access to primary medical care for children in rural areas of eastern Indonesia, the foundation needs you to balance its budget. We want to be able to load our medical truck as much as possible in order to reduce logistics costs. They will carry more than a ton of medical equipment, medicines, sterile equipment, and first-aid materials.
We need a truck to bring equipment to villages
Linked among others to the Deep Well Drilling program (Water Connections), we need to acquire a small second-hand truck, to transport our drilling machine to the sites from our base camp in Sumba East. But also all building materials (sand, cement, bricks, scrap metal etc…). At the moment, we cannot do this ourselves and have to resort to renting a truck. It costs too much and handicaps us a great deal. We are appealing to your big heart, friends. Thanks in advance for your help.
Do you have clothes or medical equipment you no longer want?
If you live in the Denpasar area, you can visit us at Rumah Baik, the Kawan Baik headquarters. And you can bring medicines, first aid equipment and accessories, games and clothes for children. That would be great! Thank you very much, Kawan.
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Fair Future estimates that every dollar invested in water and toilets saves an average of $4 in medical costs, averts deaths and increases productivity. Hygiene promotion is considered one of the most cost-effective public health interventions.
Conversely, lack of sanitation hinders economic growth.
Access to clean, safe water is the best possible medical treatment for people living in the areas where we work to give them access to healthcare. Helping us provide clear, clean water is helping to heal people.
And this is a little part of our actuality…
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.
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.
Report of the water connections project
Fair Future regularly presents reports establishing what we have achieved in all our necessary actions. The document that we offer you here explains what, all together, we have been doing over the past twelve months as part of this colossal project, Water Connections, Mbinudita Site. As a reminder, this project aims to provide access to drinking water and sanitation to more than 2,500 people whose homes are scattered over nearly 10 hectares.
New complete and healthy sanitary facilities in Ritta, East Sumba
We do not stop; the teams of Fair Future and Kawan Baik foundations have already built, as part of the #waterconnections project, site of #mbinudita #sdmbinudita, more than thirty (30) tanks of more than 6000 litres, six ( 6) complete sanitary facilities including two toilets, showers, laundry washing and water collection point. More than 10,000 meters of PVC pipes have been buried, connecting all these installations. We still have a lot of work to do. It’s intense activity.
The Interactive Map of Water Connections Project
Fair Future develops participatory monitoring tools as part of its screening and definition of needs. This map is produced as part of the #WaterConnections project. It is updated as a new sewerage installation, a new deep borehole, a new clean water reservoir and everything that directly or indirectly affects this project is built. This Google map allows us to work, do this project and calculate: Heights, elevations, distances, depths etc… Thanks to this tool, this project is much easier to set up.
New complete and healthy sanitary facilities in Wondenu, East Sumba
In rural villages in eastern Indonesia, where we work, toilets are very rare. This is particularly a problem in rural areas where a third of the population must continually defecate in the open air. For Bapak Rinto, it is a relief and a great pride that his family finally has a toilet, thanks to the support of Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia.
A real financial blow that affects us
Two of our MacBook Pro-type computers, owned by the foundation, broke down in less than three weeks. And the repair costs are exorbitant for us. We had to find quick solutions. There are days when nothing goes, or almost. Of course, it’s part of life. Still, when it directly affects our ability to work and significantly impacts the finances of our medical and social programs, it becomes complicated for a small foundation like ours.
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Are you a school or a teacher? Are you active in the field of education and want to offer unique content related to people's lives, traditions and customs? To teach other things? 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 a good one. 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.
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