A health emergency | Laindatang is a village without clean water, toilets, or sanitary facilities. Malaria, Dengue, Cholera, and Hepatitis A are present because of the hygienic conditions. It is a place of extreme poverty, so we categorize this action as RED. We must get to work this month to ensure better living conditions for these families.
Fair Future is a Swiss, independent, non-profit socio-medical organization working internationally.
Fair Future provides social and medical assistance to families, individuals and communities affected by poverty, health crises, epidemics, disasters and food or water shortages. We create innovative programs and solve problems such as child malnutrition, malaria, dengue fever, lack of food and infectious diseases linked to the absence of toilets, showers and clean water for a healthy life.
In a precarious and ultra-rural context, access to primary medical care for all is at the heart of Fair Future’s activity, which can implement a wide range of care within the framework of innovative programs and sometimes even unique.
Wherever we operate, 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!
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Your donations all finance the programs initiated by Fair Future. A borehole, a water tank, surgery, health& medical care, school and school supplies, school shoes, a solar lamp and so many other things every year.
For example, Fair Future estimates that every franc invested in water and toilets saves four francs in medical costs, avoids deaths and increases productivity. We consider hygiene promotion –life preservation– to be one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. Conversely, a lack of sanitation hampers economic growth.
Child Health
Eat, drink, bathe and go to the toilet. Water is the cheapest medicine.
Medical treatments
Fight against Malaria, Dengue, diarrhoea & water-related infectious diseases.
Clean Water
We provide access to clean and safe water for a healthier and more harmonious life.
Empowerment
Projects are carried out with the beneficiaries themselves. I take care of what I create!
Primary medical care
Tens of thousands of patients have been treated, and lives continue to be saved.
They are the Future
Through our latest articles, we invite you to discover how we provide social, medical and humanitarian aid in the ultra-rural areas of Indonesia, providing support and relief.
In the field, we carry out independent assessments to determine the needs and assess the assistance to be provided according to the scale of a crisis, the levels of disease and mortality in the population, and the severity of the exclusion. Read More News here.
What does a kitchen look like without food or water
This new "Picture of the Day" shows you what the kitchen of an East Sumba family is like. A kitchen like there are tens of thousands here. One of the elements we always see is the presence of five-litre jerry cans. They are the ones that serve as a container for the water that the girls and women have to fetch from afar. We also notice the absence of food, including no rice, only corn. Rice is expensive, and nobody can buy it here in Laindatang, East Sumba: No electricity, running water, and sink.
Just a hearth that will be used once a day only to prepare corn porridge mixed with vegetables and roots that the women have been looking for in the forest. Salt and red peppers. That will be all for the day and the whole family, including dogs and cats.
Families here live without clean or potable water, yet access to potable water is crucial for survival and maintaining good health. Without clean water, families in the areas where Fair Future and Kawan Baik work are forced to drink contaminated water, which leads to waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery.
This has an immense impact on daily life and livelihoods. Women and children must walk long distances to fetch water, which takes up much time and interferes with other activities such as work or education.
What do the sanitary facilities we build look like?
This new "Picture of the Day" shows you an example of construction that we carry out in the poorest villages of Indonesia and Asia. Here the families before did not have access to clean water and toilets. Fair Future and Kawan Baik Foundations have been changing this for years, and noticeable changes are being seen.
Access to drinking water and toilets is a fundamental human right. Still, unfortunately, in the regions where we are, nearly 90% of families in ultra-rural areas do not have access to these necessities. Here are some steps that can be taken to provide access to clean water and toilets in the regions that do not have access:
The first step is to identify the areas most needing these facilities. Fair Future and Kawan Baik proceed through research, surveys, and working with our local partners and authorities. Once regions that do not have access to clean water and toilets have been identified, we develop plans to provide these services. This takes into account the specific needs of each community. To do this, we have several ways to provide access to clean water, such as drilling deep wells, installing water filtration systems and collecting rainwater. The method used will depend on the specific needs of the community.
Access to toilets is also essential to reduce the rate of infectious diseases such as Cholera, Dengue, hepatitis A, and Malaria. In this photo, two sanitary facilities have been built using the Ferro-Cement method, with a tank for collecting dirty water and clean water for watering.
Fair Future also considers it essential to educate the community on the importance of hygiene and sanitation practices to prevent the spread of disease. We do this through the #waterconnections and #kawansehat and #primarymedicalcare programs.
One of our missions is also to monitor and maintain these new facilities. This requires the training of local community members who will carry out essential maintenance and repairs.
Inventing toys when you don’t have any
This "Picture of the Day" shows two children from Tanah Mbanas, Sumba Tengah, who have created a kitchen with waste from the plastic they found around their houses made of earth and bamboo. They are playing cooking. Here, families do not have access to water and even less to clean water.
Here in Sumba, in these ultra-rural villages, it is not uncommon for children of all ages to invent toys and games from natural materials or objects from waste or old. In these areas, children rely on their creativity and ingenuity to find new forms of play and have fun.
For example, children can make their toys from natural materials such as sticks, pebbles and leaves. They can use these materials to create games like building forts or playing "tag" with modified rules. Likewise, old items like cans, tires, or ropes can be repurposed to create new toys, like a toy truck, makeshift soccer ball, or swing.
These types of imaginative play experiences are very beneficial for the development of children. They encourage creativity, problem-solving and social interaction as children work together to develop new ideas and adapt the rules of their games. Additionally, playing in nature can provide opportunities for physical activity and exploration, positively affecting physical and mental health.
Primary medical care dedicated to children
This "Picture of the Day" shows children who, thanks to the "Primary Medical Care" programme, learn to protect themselves against illness and injury through simple gestures and habits. Children in these regions do not have access to health centres, and no doctors are present in these villages (apart from those from the Fair Future and/or Kawan baik Indonesia foundations). It makes prevention an essential component of their health and well-being. Children in ultra-rural areas can significantly reduce their risk of illness or injury by incorporating simple habits and actions into their daily routines. In addition, it is essential to make children and parents aware of the importance of these habits and gestures so that they become part of their daily lives.
Giving primary medical care is not insignificant. It usually is doctors and nurses who do this. This is what makes this program unique in terms of innovation. Those who provide care, life-saving drugs and cures for Malaria, for example, are the teachers of this isolated village in eastern Indonesia. Therefore, for us here on site, it is essential to assess the impact and effectiveness of this program regularly. We carry out surveys, and we meet to collect medical data. We, therefore, highlight the areas where we can make the necessary changes. If this primary medical care program is a huge success, it is because it involves the communities in the various planning and implementation processes.
Teachers and parents of ill or injured children provide us with essential information. This 100% medical emergency program is in the process of success. It requires multiple collaborations, adequate ongoing training, sharing of supported cases and regular evaluation to ensure its safety, effectiveness and sustainability.
Malnutrition is taking its toll here where we are
This "Picture of the Day" shows children in East Sumba, where we are at work, as I post this Photo of the Day. Fair Future and Kawan Baik teams, as part of the #kawansehat #primarymedicalcare and #waterconnections projects, cook for children in the most rural and poor areas. In this image, some are drinking strawberry milk for the first time. They had never seen a straw before, and I remember all the kids asking us how to drink that kind of drink. We had to show them and help them plant the straw in the milk carton.
Malnutrition is an endemic problem here in all the rural villages of East Sumba. It is also the region with the highest rate of malnourished children in Indonesia. Here, clean water is absent from the houses, and the consumption of unclean water generates health problems and serious illnesses. And to cook, drink, and wash, you need water. And in order not to get sick, you also need water. Food production cannot occur without water, and families do not have enough income to buy food, rice and vegetables. On average, they live with less than two litres of water per person per day for everything: cooking, eating, drinking, drinking, bathing, going to the toilet and doing laundry. Have you ever tried?
Most children here are underweight and malnourished because they cannot eat enough. Meal frequency is one meal per day. Young children may be able to eat twice if all goes well. The menu will consist of rice and corn because more than rice alone is needed. In East Sumba, a kilo of rice costs three times more than in Java or Bali. Only a little salt and peppers accompany the meal to give flavour and taste.
Water Connections project in Laindatang
The Water Connections project, Laindatang Site, is our current top priority. Laindatang is a village without water. Everyone is sick and does not have enough to eat and drink. Children are underweight, and so are adults. We must act for these hundreds of people and give them access to clean water. Here, malaria, dengue fever and infectious diarrhoea linked to contaminated water problems are taking their toll. After completing the feasibility studies, we are ready to implement this project this month. Indeed, we are there now and wish to start this necessary project for the hundreds of people suffering from the lack of water in the region.
A simple jerrycans story in East Sumba
Two litres of water per day and per person to live. And this, thanks to an object as innocuous as an old five-litre can. A stupid plastic container? For most of us, it is an object that will go irretrievably in the trash. But here, for the families that Fair Future and Kawan Baik work with – tens of thousands of families – it is essential to the survival of an entire family because it is thanks to him that these two litres of water will come home. So, let’s talk a bit about plastic canisters, if you don’t mind, to understand why it’s so important.
Learning how to live healthier in rural areas
Thanks to the Fair Future & Kawan Baik teams on site and the various publications that our two foundations have produced for them, we share a few hours in each group of houses, in each village where Fair Future and Kawan Baik have carried out one or more projects related to access to drinking water and to toilets and other sanitary facilities. Together, we learn the means available to the villagers to have a healthier life, with fewer illnesses, to eat and drink better, to wash more, to take care of themselves and one’s families.
These are some of the questions we ask ourselves daily in our work with needy communities.
What should we change in the malaria treatment mode, according to the shortage of drugs? What can we change to fight malnutrition? For example, the use of ready-to-eat foods? Why is access to clean water essential to ensure a healthy life?
Primary Medical Care Program
Field assessment and additional teacher training will start.
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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.
Picture of the day
#pictureoftheday | More often than not, a single picture is worth all the words in the world.
Sometimes we show you real heroes, but it will always be an authentic story that one of us is living and wants to pass on!
What do the sanitary facilities we build look like?
Access to clean water and safe toilets here in East Sumb where we are working, helps to improve...
Inventing toys when you don’t have any
Inventing toys when you don't have any? Children in ultra-rural areas invent toys and games with...
Primary medical care dedicated to children
To avoid falling ill or seriously injuring themselves, we teach children in the ultra-rural areas...
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!
Have clean water? It is the cheapest medicine in the world. It makes fighting against hunger and malnutrition, malaria, dengue fever, lack of hygiene and water stress possible. This reduces infant mortality and helps create wealth. This is just with clean water and healthy sanitary facilities.
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About this picture | Malaria here mainly affects young children, children under five, and vulnerable people, especially those whose immune systems are weakened by other diseases linked to poverty and undernourishment. Pregnant women are also concerned… We have nothing to treat them!"
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About the Malaria epidemic in eastern Indonesia
We need drugs to treat people - mostly children - who are affected in large numbers. Without adequate care, children under five, and vulnerable people die.
The need for medical equipment and medicines is essential at the moment. The authorities and the state services concerned do not care and do not have the means to buy the drugs that very many families should have to treat one of their own.
Our local medical teams say this: "-The disease mainly affects young children, those under the age of five, vulnerable people, especially those with immune systems weakened by other diseases linked to poverty and undernourishment. Pregnant women are also affected... We have nothing to treat them!".
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