Fair Future Foundation, in collaboration with Kawan Baik Indonesia and Sumba Volunteer, is working to combat malaria in the highly affected region of East Sumba, Indonesia. Through their program, they aim to provide screening, prevention, and treatment to the remote village of Laindatang.
Water, Nutrition & Survival
Clean water is the foundation of everything. Without it, there can be no nutrition, no sustainable health. By ensuring access to water, we protect children, prevent disease, and enable communities to survive, grow, and thrive over the long term.

The Water, Nutrition & Survival category addresses core public health determinants that directly affect morbidity and mortality in ultra-rural settings.
Articles document how limited access to safe water, adequate nutrition, and basic sanitation increases the risk of waterborne disease, malnutrition, dehydration, and infection. Interventions follow WHO public health standards, combining water infrastructure, food support, hygiene promotion, and community education. This category highlights field-based actions that stabilize health, prevent avoidable disease, and support survival where resources and healthcare access remain critically limited.
Latest field updates
The access to the village is a hope for a better life
Discover the remarkable progress in our ongoing construction and repair efforts on the road to Laindatatang village in East Sumba. The Fair Future Foundation has been at the forefront, meticulously coordinating and overseeing this significant project for months.
Awesome! The first loaded truck arrives at Laindatang
After difficult road repairs, a truck carrying construction materials and sanitation equipment reaches remote Laindatang in East Sumba.
The #WaterConnections project in Laindatang has started!
Fair Future begins Water Connections work in Laindatang, where families face severe water scarcity and long daily journeys to collect water.
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.
A healthier life thanks to the Water Connections program
Water Connections gives families in Mbinudita easier access to clean water and sanitation, supporting hygiene, gardening and daily household health.
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.
Reduce health risks with clean water for families
Families in remote East Sumba rely on limited and often unsafe water. Better access supports hygiene, health and children’s daily lives.
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.
What do the sanitary facilities we build look like?
Fair Future builds clean-water and sanitation facilities with rural communities where families previously had no safe toilets or reliable water access.













