11:30pm, Kawan Yosa, Kawan Gogon, Kawan Primus and Kawan Alex just sorted out the drugs that @fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia brought to the site, to our base camp here in East Sumba. In the last truck, we also loaded a new fridge dedicated to medicines and syrup. We just installed it and now we are keeping the most sensitive drugs cool. because here it is very very hot.

These few reserves represent 10% of what we need each month. Therefore, we kindly encourage you to help us here to purchase the drugs and other medical materials that the foundation needs.

Thank you for your help 😊.

https://fairfuturefoundation.org

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@fairfuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia today were doing some survey in the far south of sumba, a very rural area where no roads lead call Tanarara.

Water issues are everywhere here. people sometimes have to walk for miles to get to a point of water like this. Then, going back home with a few 5 liters Jerrycan only.

People there said: "- In few weeks, here will be no water anymore, because it's started the dry season". In fact, it's the same situation mostly everywhere in here, each year. People are struggling to have access to some liters of water to cook, to wash, to keep healthy, for over 8 months/year.

And now, the problem with the broken damn makes things even more complicated.

We are working on a program to improve this water problem and giving solutions to these communities to have access to more water. You also can be involved with is, water is life.

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Sumba's children are the 1st victims of the water and food crisis that follows the natural disaster of this early April. But also pregnant women, sick and the elderly.

@kawanbaikfoundation & @fairfuturefoundation does what it takes to help them but sometimes feels well a bit "poor" in front of the magnitude of the task.

Distribution of medical care, vitamins for children, food supplements too. So many people have vital needs they can no longer satisfy. Working to protect children, vulnerable people, families with aid to life and setting up long-term assistance requires time, attention.

That's why Rumah Kambera now exists here.

Support us: https://fairfuturefoundation.org/actforsumba/ ...

Good morning to everyone, from Kambera, Rumah Kambera Fair Future Base camp in East Sumba.

For the Forgotten of Sumba, @FairFuturefoundation and @kawanbaikindonesia, gave free health & medical care to more than 250 people, the vast majority of whom were children: Malnutrition, amemias, respiratory problems, injuries, skin infections were the most common problems, the more frequently encountered here.

In a few days, we will repeat this kind of events. Free health & medical care will be organised, but we still lack lots of medicines, medical equipment, water, food, food supplements.

We believe that the worst is to come. Notably linked to the water which is now non-existent, to the loss of more than 4,000 hectares of rice-fields, crops. Let’s not turn a blind eye to what’s going to happen here.

We are the only NGO on the spot, I mean international, Kawan Baik and Fair Future are also the ones who manage what is the largest social camp in the whole province of East Sumba. It is a great citizen movement and the people who are here, very many of them to help us, are all victims of this disaster which hit Sumba East on April 4, Easter day 2021.

To give a hand: link in the bio!

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Some photos taken during our work yesterday April 19, 2021, in the region of Mauliru, Sumba East. We met people there who have great needs: To have access to consumable water, food, medical care, means of storage, enough to sleep, have a roof.

This is where we work with Fair Future Foundation, Kawan baik Indonesia and all the people, good friends, who have joined us in what is now the biggest aid center in East Sumba: I'm talking about Rumah Kambera here. It's like in an anthill here, people run in all directions, busy preparing food donations, huge containers of medicine. People also come to bring donations of food, huge 5000 liter tanks so that we can install them in villages where there is no water at all. An incredible energy emanates from this magical and timeless place.

Thank you also to all of you who have donated to Fair Future, without you this would not be possible at all. Today we are planning for the long term, even the very long term because the most important problems are to come: Water, food, medical care, reconstruction, infrastructure, civil engineering.

Your can support this with the link in bio!

#actforntt
#kawanbaikberbagi
#kawanbaikindonesia #fairfuturefoundation ...

The river and the cyclone destroyed everything in their path on these first days of April 2021.

The dam no longer exists. It was a vital and critical element in order to bring water and irrigate the thousands of small canals on more than 4,000 hectares of rice fields and various crops. These 4,000 hectares are there to feed the population of the island.

Entire villages have yet to receive assistance.

On the banks of the rivers, but also all around inland for kilometers, houses have been wiped off the map, just like their inhabitants. It will take two years to rebuild this dam and bring water to irrigate crops. In addition to the health aspect, a food and economic crisis is to be feared. Cultures without water will die in the next few days.

All irrigation systems (vital element in order to live, eat, be in good health) are dry. Access to drinking water is scarce.

Fish so as not to be hungry, and eat the fish, directly on the ruins of the dam. Others go for food in the forest. Those who climb the ruins of the dam to fish are playing a dangerous but necessary game.

Without water and therefore, without cultivation, without production of rice, corn and after months of invasion of locusts which also ravaged everything, the prices which were already too high, will increase significantly and people will not be able to buy anything. They must therefore go and find something to eat elsewhere.

We are there, Fair Future Foundation, Kawan Baik Indonesia and all of our local friends are there with us and go where others don't. All together, we bring food in tons, hundreds of m3 of water, install tanks of 2000-5000 liters, give medical care, drugs, and other things to get better, to rebuild.

Thank you very much for helping them:
https://actionforfairfuture.org/sumba-disaster-21/

Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia ©fff/kbi April 2021 ...

This morning, a team composed of Fair Future Foundation, @kawanbaikindonesia and @scholarsofsustenanceid members left for Sumba to join forces with the team already on site. They gathered at the base camp, Rumah Kambera, close to Waingapu in the afternoon.

As soon as they arrived on-site, they got to work started with the inventory of supply, especially medical material and medicine, one of the main priorities. Later on, other organizations and volunteers joined with a general meeting; indeed, the main focus two weeks after the disaster is to get organized and find urgent solutions regarding health care access, water supply, which is running low.

As mentioned, we already started to map the disaster area with regions and infrastructures damaged or need urgent help. Those discussion and meetings are the best way to collect, collaborate, and move on as one coordinate team.

#ActforNTT #SumbaTimur
#KawanBaikBerbagi ...

One of our local collaborators is #tenunikatpraikundu. Under the command of @kornelis_ndapakamang, located in Lambanapu, they mobilised the volonteers to distribute aid to Mauliru village as one of the most inundated villages as well as the isolate village of Kiritana.

Spirit of collaboration from all of those;
@kawanbaikindonesia
@fairfuturefoundation
@sumbavolunteer
#karangtarunakabupatensumbatimur
@sekarkawung_id
@scholarsofsustenanceid
@thetrekkers
#tenunikatpraikundu
@kunangjewelry
@rumahsanur

#ActforNTT #KawanBaikBerbagi
#SumbaTimur

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