📍Nusa Tenggara Timur, East Sumba – Rumah Kambera – On 24/06/2026

🔎 This image shows a family sitting near a water point in East Sumba. Behind this simple gesture lies a reservoir, pipes, labor, and above all, fewer illnesses. When water reaches homes, children walk less, infections decrease, and life thrives.

Water, care, and a truck full of solutions

👋 Hello, it’s Alex. How are you?

It has been a long time since I last wrote to you. Not because nothing is happening, but because almost too much is happening. Here, the days have more dust than hours, and the nights are already preparing for tomorrow.

The first two Water Connections 2026 reservoirs are now completed. They use our new model, which is more stable and easier to maintain.

Each one now provides water to four families, around 30 people who previously had no nearby water source. For the first reservoir, we buried a pipe and used the land's natural slope to carry water to another group of houses. When gravity agrees to work with us, we do not say no.

We have received a donation to build four additional reservoirs. After that, nine will still be missing to reach our goal of fifteen. One reservoir costs CHF 2,245. With that, families gain access to water and hygiene, fewer diarrhoeal diseases and infections, and greater dignity.

Our sepsis study is moving forward. Over the past three weeks, more than 300 interviews have been carried out in extremely isolated homes, often with no access to healthcare, no reliable medical information, and no usable roads.

Thanks to new support, the study will grow from 600 to 1,000 houses. One house can shelter several families. This will give the final report more weight, and above all, more truth. We are adding four villages, with more than twenty enumerators involved.

The goal is to publish the final report on 13 September, for World Sepsis Day.

In the meantime, we left for Surabaya with the Truck n’Load, packed like a truck that had swallowed a hospital and a construction site. Two and a half days by ferry, then Java.

Three broken generators, from 5,000 to 7,500 watts, intended for families and villages, have now been repaired. We also bought a small portable Honda generator.

We will bring the truck back to Sumba on 1 July with nearly 120 kilos of medicines, medical equipment, and five sets of Sika 107 for the next reservoirs. Here, a simple infection becomes dangerous when treatment arrives too late, or not at all. In total, more than three tonnes of material.

We made this journey as a family. Ayu was there, and Sorai too. At six months old, he spent ten days in a six-tonne truck on the roads of Java, between garages, ferries, heat, dust, medicines, and generators to repair.

It was not exactly a spa holiday, but it was a real field school. He had already known Sumba, its broken roads, long days, and sometimes complicated nights.

This time, he saw Java from the cabin of the Truck n’Load, safely installed in his baby seat, like a very small truck driver. For us, this is precious. The foundation is part of his life, part of our family, and perhaps also part of his future. Thank you, Sorai❤︎, for being part of the journey. The next generation is already on board.

In mid-July, our Primary Medical Care programme, the most important programme of the foundation, will enter a new phase. From 15 to 17 July, a training session will bring together all Kawan Sehat health agents, the new recruits, the medical staff, supervisors, volunteers, and members of the local government.

Eight new women's health agents will then join the team. That means more than 30% more field caregivers.

For us, this is an immense joy, but also a serious responsibility: more patients, more medicines, more medical bags, more data to manage, more educational materials, and more field coordination. This is not only about expanding a team. It is about strengthening a healthcare system where there was almost none.

Finally, Rumah Kambera 2.0 is moving forward, step by step, but very concretely. The land has been acquired, the water is there, electricity is there too, and we have now received an almost final version of the architectural project. You can discover it by clicking on the link below.

This future place will not be just another building, but our medical, logistical, and human base in East Sumba: care, pharmacy, small laboratory, storage, training, departures to the villages, team accommodation, and programme coordination.

In Surabaya, we also met Mr Mathius, from KNA, the company that built the school in Mbinudita with us. He is a serious and deeply human partner, someone who understands the realities of the field and wants to help us as he did for Mbinudita. Today, Fair Future has raised around CHF 31,000.-. This is huge for us, but still not enough. At the end of December, we must leave our current base. Without Rumah Kambera 2.0, our medical, logistical, and training activities will become very fragile.

Here, everything is becoming more expensive: rice, materials, transport, medicines. But the opposite is also true: every franc given here becomes cement, pipes, medicines, local work, and real care.

Thank you to those who truly act. To those who transform words into reservoirs, medicines, medical bags, walls, training, and care. Here, promises do not build anything. Actions do. They stand in the sun, carry water, treat wounds, prevent infections, and allow our teams to continue. It is because of you that we are still moving forward.

Alex, for Fair Future - Wednesday, 24 June 2026

👩🏻 Eight more women to care for forgotten villages

In the villages where the Kawan Sehat health agents work, there is often nothing else. No nearby doctor, no pharmacy, sometimes no clean water, no electricity, and roads so difficult that a fever, a wound, or an infection can become serious before the patient even reaches a health centre.

Almost the entire team is made up of women, with only one man. They live in these villages. They know the families, children, elderly, and chronically ill. They do not replace a hospital, but they prevent many situations from collapsing. A wound cleaned in time, an infection treated early, a family that recognises danger signs: here, this can save a life.

In East Sumba, the medical situation remains extremely fragile. Out of 22 public health centres, around ten have no doctor. Medicines are so scarce that some official health centres now send us formal requests for basic treatments.

Each new health agent means more care, but also more patients, more medicines, more medical bags, more follow-up, and more time in the field. We do this with limited resources, but with one simple conviction: where there is almost no one, someone must at least be able to provide care.

🔎 This image shows a young patient, one of the nearly 1,000 people treated each month by Fair Future. Here, thankfully, it's a simple treatment for fever and cough, administered by a Kawan Sehat agent in recent days. Without early treatment, even a minor infection can quickly worsen in these remote villages.

💡The SEPSIS Study 2026 programme seeks to understand why simple infections become deadly in the isolated villages of East Sumba. By visiting 1,000 houses, our teams collect data on access to care, treatment delays, transport, medicines, and warning signs, with one goal: to better prevent sepsis before it is too late.

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