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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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02.12.2022 - Do you have clothes or medical equipment you no longer want? We are leaving on the coming 8th December.

URGENT: 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. Anything you can donate will be sent to our East Sumba Base Camp. That would be great! Thank you very much, Kawan.

01.12.22 - More new reservoirs for the storage of clean water that we are building in large numbers.

Picture of the day: The Water Connections project is more than thirty reservoirs like this one, more than twenty sanitation facilities and water for 2,500 people in Mbinudita. Water to reduce infant mortality, birth problems and serious illnesses linked to the consumption of unsanitary water. Improving living conditions, creating economic opportunity, creating wealth and creating mental well-being

28.11.22 - Kawan Sehat means "healthy friend". Here is the preview of the book that will be printed this week

Kawan Sehat is a book for children in the Ultra Rural areas of eastern Indonesia that gives them tips and tricks to be healthier. Each panel features Rambu, Umbu and a Horse around socio-sanitary themes. The medical teams of the foundation to local customs and traditions have treated themes. This book is a part of the Primary Medical Care program.

29.11.22 - In the meantime and for 15 months, the Water Connections project has been in full swing.

Picture of the day: Having toilets for the first time in your life? It probably doesn't seem like a big deal to you, but it's game-changing for families here. Our teams are on site in East Sumba building toilets for over 300 families. So they can go to pee and poo elsewhere than behind a tree!

28.11.22 - Preparing primary health care kits for rural kids, over sixty!

Sixty (60) containers filled with medical equipment, essential drugs, and what to quickly treat a wound to prevent it from getting worse are being prepared. Next week, more than a ton of medical equipment will reach our Rumah Kambera medico-social base camp by road. This represents a considerable volume of purchases, believe me.

28.11.22 - We received a donation of CHF.3,000.-, for the purchase of anti-malarial drugs and the Primary Medical Care program for children

We have just received another donation of CHF.3,000.- from Switzerland for the purchase of anti-malaria drugs. With this sum, we will be able to buy medical equipment, emergency care equipment, drugs (including Doxycycline©, Kina© and Primaquin© against Malaria) and the things we need for the programs on-site in Sumba East.

25.11.22 - We received a donation of CHF.1,000.- for the purchase of anti-malaria medication

We have just received a donation of CHF.1,000.- from Switzerland, for the purchase of anti-malaria drugs. With this sum, we will be able to give treatments over seven days including Doxycycline©, Kina© and Primaquin© to more than one hundred people infected with Malaria, which as a reminder can be fatal.

25.11.22 - Here is the road that will follow the "Truck of Life" to reach Sumba East

Follow the Truck of Life, who will soon leave for Sumba East, by road at the end of November. It will be loaded with medicines and medical equipment dedicated to the medical care programs on site. You will be able to follow us by means of this Interactive Map that we will feed with stories, images and short videos.

A little word from Alex, who wants to speak to you to explain something!

You can pass this little word further if the heart tells you that alone can help us enormously.

Hello everyone; it is Alexandre Wettstein, founder and CEO of the Fair Future Foundation, who is writing to you. How are you today?

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

24.11.2022 - Water connection project progressing tremendously in East Sumba

To date, we have built more than thirty reservoirs with a capacity between 3,500 and 7,000 litres, drawn more than ten kilometres of pipes, drilled two deep wells, and built ten healthy sanitary installations. All this is to provide more than 2,500 people in East Sumba access to clean water and a much healthier life for all there. Read here all Related News.

23.11.2022 - Help an entire family live better with just $1 a day!

Giving just 1.- per day will help a family or a child to have a healthier and more harmonious life. But also access to better health, healthier food, drinking water, more school supplies, reusable water bottles, solar lamps for studying, seeds for the garden, vitamins, advice from our healthcare professionals, and medication if needed in the event of illness.

19.11.2022 - Album related to our access to medical care programs

The Fair Future foundation is active in local medical care, its primary mission. Since 2008, we have implemented measures and programs to offer a healthier and more harmonious life through traditional medicine and innovative projects. Take a Take a look at this photo album

22.11.2022 - Donation of CHF. 8,000.- for medical equipment

Fair Future has just donated to Kawan Baik Indonesia, part of the amount that will be used to acquire more than a ton of medical equipment and drugs (including antimalarial) for the program of access to primary medical care dedicated to children in rural areas of East Sumba. We need your help to bring more to the field where people struggle to access primary medical care.

20.11.2022 - Our needs in anti-malaria treatment

Our medical teams are issuing a red health alert linked to the malaria epidemic, affecting the eastern regions of Indonesia for several weeks. We are ready to go there at the end of this month with the Truck of Life, and you can help us acquire antimalarial treatments for the children. There is no medicine available here.

14.11.2022 - 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 help us transport all the equipment to our medico-social base in East Sumba. We want to be able to load our medical truck as much as possible to reduce logistical costs and to do this. We still need medical equipment.

07.11.2022 - 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 unfit for consumption and dangerous to their health.

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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.

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We urgently need anti-malaria drugs!

by Alex | Dec 2, 2022 | We need it

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.

Help us load the medical truck for its next trip

by Alex | Nov 14, 2022 | We need it

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.

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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,

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Kawan Sehat, the full book for a healthier life

Nov 30, 2022 | Child Health, We are the Future

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

Nov 21, 2022 | Short stories

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

Nov 18, 2022 | Short stories

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.

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Nov 16, 2022 | Short stories

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Kawan Sehat means "healthy friend".

This little book is one of two original publications that ...

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Kawan Sehat means "healthy friend".

This little book is one of two original publications that @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia will use for the Rural Children's Access to Primary Medical Care program.

It's a clear and simple title, but it says it all. This book is about fifteen pages. Our friend Bayu illustrated these boards so that children immediately understood their meaning.

Each board presents Rambu (the woman), Umbu (the man) and a Horse (which is the symbol of the local culture) around socio-sanitary themes. Throughout the pages, they will share with the children moments of their daily life around hygiene, eating healthier, drinking more and better, brushing their teeth, washing their ears, protecting themselves from lice, not showering and washing the body with laundry, how to treat a snake or dog bite, a cut, a burn, etc. before it becomes infected and becomes fatal.

The horse is the most important animal in East Sumba culture, and this book is charged with providing an excellent example of what to do and what not to do to keep healthy and not get sick.

The foundation's medical teams, familiar with local customs and traditions, have treated about twenty public health subjects so that everyone recovers and acquires the essential practical knowledge to treat themselves effectively in critical moments. And even to save the life of a loved one.

This book is an integral part of the program of access to primary medical care for children in ultra-rural areas, for which we are in tons of boxes at the moment, even if we want to have much more.

PS: The image here is the cover of the book. Indeed, we can't and we don't want to publish everything. We're saving the premiere and exclusivity for teachers, kids, and our teams who haven't all seen it yet.

Thank you so much - @alexwettstein - Rumah Baik, the 29.11.2022

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It's a bit of stress before departure with all this material. The teams from @fairfuturefoundation at @kawanbaikindonesia are working hard here.

Sixty (60) containers filled with medical equipment and essential drugs, enough to quickly treat a wound to prevent it from getting worse, and many other things are being prepared. Next week, more than a ton of medical equipment will reach our Rumah Kambera medico-social base camp by road.

This represents a considerable volume of purchases, believe me. Rumah Baik base camp in Denpasar is filled with boxes, tape, medicine, plasters, bandages, disinfectants and other medical equipment.

The two books that @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia have produced are being finalised: One is for children in these ultra-rural areas (6 to 10 yo), and the other contains the basis for the teacher training modules for rural schools in East Sumba. A five-day course will be given in mid-December by our medical teams on-site to a hundred teachers plus the others, themselves from these ultra-rural villages.

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Pak Pandeta Petrus Ndakularak, a friend of us is helping the community around is church in Nggaha Ori Angu, desa Tana Tuku, ...

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Pak Pandeta Petrus Ndakularak, a friend of us is helping the community around is church in Nggaha Ori Angu, desa Tana Tuku, East Sumba.

Their is about 100 people there who don't have access to water, I mean without having to walk hours. So, Petrus and three of his friends started to digg a well manually, but it's take so long and it's so hard as you can see on this short movie.

After three weeks only a few meters have been dug and of course no water yet. It may take months to get water, certainly not very clean, but it's better than no water at all. Maybe we will have water, with God's help, as Petrus told me yesterday.

This is what people are doing here where @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia are working to help people to get access to clean water. It's an outstanding job, dangerous also as after 22 meters deep, it's almost not possible to breath anymore.

Want to help them? It's easy kawan, go the the @fairfuturefoundation website, read, learn and finally, help us to help them.

Yesterday 15.09.2022, Kawan, we crossed the barrier of 8 eight billion inhabitants on earth. This is a real challenge for ...

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Yesterday 15.09.2022, Kawan, we crossed the barrier of 8 eight billion inhabitants on earth. This is a real challenge for poor and developing countries; we can see it daily.

Today, 50% of the world's population has enough to eat. Malnutrition, undernutrition, and even obesity linked to junk food are fundamental problems of the 21st century that we gladly forget to the detriment of our well-being. The issue of agricultural production in terms of quantity, quality and price directly affects our health, and that of our loved ones, already today.

What about the regions in which @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia are active daily? What about all of them there? What are they eating today? They already suffer from a child malnutrition rate which is the highest in this country (4th world population, it should be remembered).

And tomorrow, what will happen again for all those who become poorer and poorer year after year? It's terrifying...

We must think and act together to try to reverse the course of events. This is not a fight; it is a human duty. I think and act/work this way because I am one of those eight billion people.

The November 16, 2022 - @alexwettstein for the @fairfuturefoundation

What are the @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia needs urgently right now?

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What are the @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia needs urgently right now?

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 still lack a lot of medical equipment and simple medicines to fill the more than 60 first aid kits that will be placed in the schools of the ultra-rural villages of East Sumba.

At the end of November, two team members from the @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia, will leave by road to join our medico-social base camp in Rumah Kambera. A five-day trip with the "Truck of Life".

We want to load our medical truck as much as possible to reduce logistical costs. As I said, we will transport nearly a ton of medical equipment, medicines, and first-aid equipment to treat an injury or an injury at home or school.

But also the book - Kawan Sehat, the healthy friend -we produced for the children's attention and all the teachers of these ultra-rural schools: "How to access a healthier life in simple images to understand".

Note: In addition, you will have the opportunity to follow us via an interactive map, which we will update live. Along the way, we'll be posting regular updates on where we're at, who we're meeting, and who we'll share moments in their lives with... and ours too.

You can go to the foundation's website to find out how to help us fill the truck with first-aid medical equipment.

Thank you so much Kawan

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"-In Indonesia, 89 million citizens or more than 30% of the population, do not have access to a clean water source...".

Our work in East Sumba is linked to the observation we have made throughout our years with the local communities. Here it is: East Sumba is one of the poorest regions in Indonesia, with a low human development index. Unfortunately, almost 65% of the community does not have access to clean water (ref. Regent of Sumba Timur, K. Praing). Also, to our great sadness, the region now has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the entire country.

Regarding access to water via wells, it must be said that very calcareous soils lead to high levels of calcium in groundwater. The latter becomes unfit mainly for consumption and dangerous if the water is not drawn deep enough. A well dug by hand cannot exceed 25 m in depth. It becomes too risky, and the air is no longer sufficient.

Therefore, the solution of deep drilling can go beyond 150 m deep. Still, these are extremely expensive: Amounts which can exceed $150 per meter drilled, apart from any other installations such as DC submersible pumps, solar panels etc.

People work, children walk miles to school, everyone goes about their business, and it's normal. They are thirsty. The heat, the efforts, and the biological needs of each one make it necessary to drink. It is a human reflex of pure survival. We are thirsty, and we consume what we have.

In these few images taken by the @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia teams in the field, we want to show you what people of all ages drink or can drink.

And so, as we keep seeing almost every day, problems with drinking unclean water lead to high rates of malaria, diarrhoea, bladder disease, kidney infections, joint pain, respiratory issues and far too high infant mortality.

That's why, with @kawanbaikindoneisa, we are creating Water Connections—providing clean and safe water and sanitation facilities to all those communities that do not have access to it.

Have a great weekend Kawan!

Hello Kawan, how are you doing today?

The teams of @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia have already built,...

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Hello Kawan, how are you doing today?

The teams of @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia have already built, as part of the #waterconnections project site of #mbinudita #sdmbinudita, about thirty (30) tanks of more than 6000 litres, six ( 6) complete sanitary facilities, including two toilets, showers, laundry washing and water collection point. Several thousand meters of PVC pipes were buried, connecting all these facilities.

We still have a lot of work to do. It is an intense activity, and these few images will show how we proceed in constructing such infrastructures.

Raising awareness of an entire region and an entire population is also one of the keys to this work that we have been carrying out here for several years. We talk together while working about issues related to access to clean water (how to keep it clean and how to best use it, for example), food and how to generate it with water, and sanitary facilities that are healthy and clean throughout the year... All this so that everyone can have a healthier and more harmonious life.

The 🇨🇭Swiss foundation @fairfurefoundation, its members of the foundation board, and all those who work here voluntarily in the field (Alex and Elisa) encourage you to support the foundation's programs by donating. It's only to help us help them. To do this, visit the foundation's website by clicking on the link at the top.

Rumah Kambera - Rumah Baik, November 1, 2022 - @alexwettstein

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