Water Connections Project: Ensuring Clean Water, Sanitation, and a Healthy Future for Children and Families in Lapinu Village, East Sumba, with Fair Future Foundation.
The Fair Future Foundation’s mission is to improve the health, nutrition, and daily lives of families in Lapinu Village through the provision of clean water and sanitation facilities.
Water Connections Project: Saving Lives in Lapinu Village: Fair Future has been working in Lapinu village, East Sumba for almost four years. This extremely rural community of 300 people, 70% of whom are children, lives without access to clean water, electricity, sanitation, or healthcare. It is a village where the essentials of survival are lacking, and the impact on health is significant.
Last week, our teams – including deep drilling specialists, water experts, and social teams – spent three days conducting a detailed feasibility study to bring the Lapinu Water Connections Project to life. This project will provide clean water and transform lives, improve health, and reduce the burden of infectious diseases like malaria and polio that affect this village.
Through this study, we could understand the community’s immense needs: access to clean water, adequate sanitation, and healthier living conditions. The lack of these essential elements directly impacts health, especially for children who are most vulnerable to diseases.
“Access to clean water is the most cost-effective medicine we can offer. In Lapinu, it’s not just about survival, it’s about dignity and the future of an entire generation.”
— Alex Wettstein, CEO and Founder of Fair Future Foundation
Fair Future is a medical foundation. Our mission here is not only to build wells and toilets but also to preserve life. Introducing clean water means fewer sick children with waterborne diseases, fewer cases of malaria, and better nutrition. The project will include a deep well, ferrocement tanks, and new hygienic toilets. We will remove the contaminated and unsafe toilets currently in use, reducing the risk of soil contamination and disease transmission.
This is not just about infrastructure; it is about giving these families the chance to live in dignity, with access to the most basic human need: clean water. It’s about giving children the opportunity to go to school, to grow up healthy and strong, free from the constant threat of preventable diseases.
The photos in this gallery capture the heart of this effort. They show the faces of those we serve, the hands that will build, and the eyes filled with hope for a future where water flows freely, toilets are safe, and disease no longer defines daily life. Together, we can make this vision a reality. Clean water is the most cost-effective medicine, and it’s a medicine that Lapinu’s village desperately needs.
We cordially invite all captivated by this story to explore our photo gallery, witness this extraordinary effort, and further engage with our mission through our Instagram account.
Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation medico-social camp in East Sumba – Rumah Kambera, Lambanapu – The 22nd of September 2024
