Food insecurity, poverty and limited water access combine to worsen nutrition risks for children in remote East Sumba communities.
Malnutrition is taking its toll here where we are
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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.
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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.
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We have a toilet for the first time in our life!
A family in Mbinudita gains access to toilets, washing facilities and clean water at home through the Water Connections program.
When only dirty water remains to try to survive
Children in remote villages may still rely on very limited, visibly contaminated water when safer sources are unavailable.
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.
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…
Water Connections, look at all we’ve done!
Look at what has been done in the last 20 months, it’s simply extraordinary because doing this in this region was a priori impossible, but we did it. We are at the end of the line in the Water Connections project, we have “only” a few things left to build, including a huge 25,000-liter tank.
Washing hands to preserve health and life
Some forms of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections can lead to serious complications, especially in young children, the elderly, or people with weakened immune systems. This is why hand washing prevents the spread of disease. Indeed, many infectious and contagious diseases can be transmitted from one person to another through contaminated…
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 😒.
Women, children and water at home
Indonesian women play a vital role in water management due to their traditional responsibilities of collecting water, cooking, cleaning and raising children. These women from these ultra-rural areas of eastern Indonesia are strong. They represent tremendously well the strength and the courage it takes to survive here in this vast country.
8 billion equal people? What about the food?
Eight billion people on earth: Are we going to starve? On the one hand, there is population growth. On the other, the world’s resources make it possible to feed human beings. How to reconcile the two? Today and tomorrow, will we all be able to provide for ourselves?
