Fair Future begins Water Connections work in Laindatang, where families face severe water scarcity and long daily journeys to collect water.
The #WaterConnections project in Laindatang has started!
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Laindatang Water Connections
This program aims to provide access to clean water and healthy sanitation facilities to an entire region that does not have access to them at all as part of several phases of work that began in July 2022.
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The Laindatang & Hambarita Water Connection category documents a multi-year intervention addressing unsafe water access as a primary health risk in ultra-rural Indonesia.
From 2023 onward, this project focuses on developing clean water infrastructure, improving water safety, and reducing waterborne diseases through sustainable systems and community involvement. Articles report on implementation phases, technical challenges, maintenance, and measurable health outcomes. Integrated within the Water, Nutrition & Survival program, this category reflects how long-term water access directly improves hygiene, nutrition, and overall health resilience at community level.
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Water and sanitation are crucial in the fight against malaria
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene support healthier living conditions alongside malaria prevention, vector control and access to medical care.
Kullup is a hole in the rock to collect rainwater
Children in Laindatang walk to traditional rock basins called Kullup to collect scarce rainwater far from their homes.
Access to clean water is vital for human health
Children in remote East Sumba often walk long distances carrying water. Better access reduces daily burden and supports safer hygiene and health.
Giving life to the village of Laindatang
The current priority in this village is to give them clean, safe water and sanitation. Here, families must walk for miles, sometimes more than 10 hours, to bring a few litres of clean water home. People here have less than 2 litres per day and a person to drink, eat, go to the toilets, and wash. So you have to make sacrifices.
What does a kitchen look like without food or water
A household kitchen in Laindatang shows the daily reality of food insecurity and limited water access in rural East Sumba.
Kids here have to fetch water from the age of five!
In remote East Sumba villages, young children often walk long distances carrying water for their families.
East Sumba, a village without clean water!
Families in Laindatang face severe water scarcity, making safe drinking water and sanitation a central priority for the Water Connections project.
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.
Deep drilling project in Laindatang
In the heart of East Sumba, Laindatang Village. 250 people live here in extreme conditions, notably linked to the lack of water and food, but not only 😒.
Water Connections from the sky – 04 October 2022
The health burden of poor-quality water is enormous, and providing clean water to such a large population is a considerable challenge. Indonesia, particularly the east of this immense country, is characterized by a non-uniformity in the level of awareness and socio-economic development. Therefore, our two foundations do what they can.
We carried out our first deep drilling with our own machine
Until last week, the 264 students of this school in East Sumba had no water in their school. As you can imagine, this posed unexpected sanitary problems for all the children, the teachers and the houses in the surrounding area. Fair Future has therefore decided to drill a deep well at the back of the school, and we have, thanks to our detection…
