Clean and healthy water is distributed almost everywhere now here in Mbinudita, East Sumba.
People are happy, and It’s a significant change in their life. They also have to get used to living with clean water to change their habits. Imagine: Having lived a life without having access to toilets, without having access to clean water, and being constantly sick… You have to get used to feeling better now and having more time for yourself. Change your habits? This is where the most significant challenge lies.
This clean and healthy water supplies more than thirty reservoirs and twenty healthy sanitary facilities. All for the benefit of more than 2,500 people, nearly 65% of whom are children. The “water connections” program, by the villagers of #mbinudita, the Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia teams, aims to provide access to clean, healthy and non-lethal water to communities living in the most isolated regions of Indonesia. This program started in East Sumba, Mbinudita village, more than eighteen months ago. Today more than thirty water tanks between 3500 and 6500 litres have been built, as well as more than twenty sanitary toilets.
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Water connections? It is also nearly 7,000 meters of pipes that our teams – with the help of the villagers – have buried and which connect each of the installations built from the deep boreholes that we have made. As a reminder, the consumption of dirty water is the leading cause of illness and death, especially among vulnerable people and young children. Thus, giving them access to a source of clean water, healthy in quantity and quality, will provide them with access to better health, a better quality of life and, for parents, income through the sale of vegetables from their gardens, for instance.
