Malaria Emergency | In order to effectively fight the ongoing malaria epidemic in our region, our medical teams need vital resources such as medicines, rapid diagnostic kits, laboratory equipment and two microscopes. In addition, it is very important that we have access to impregnated mosquito nets and indoor spraying equipment (IRS) to prevent any potential infection. Thank you from the heart.
Our programs and actions in pictures
Discover how we provide Social, medical, and humanitarian support
Rumah Kambera, our Medico-Social Base Camp
Rumah Kambera is the centre of life for all those who work hard in eastern Indonesia. We implement planned programs such as health and medical care for all, the Water Connections programme, access to first aid care for children, and disaster relief planning. Our teams are always ready to receive anyone who would ask for help or support. It is also the centre of thoughts of a whole team that imagines the projects of tomorrow: A borehole here, the construction of infrastructure there. A place where we live, eat, sleep from time to time, and also laugh.
The 2nd sanitary facility of the village is almost finished
Although access to clean water continues to be a problem, it isn’t easy to ensure it is safe. In this sense, Fair Future is putting in place measures to ensure that it is sustainable. By tests, of course, filtration systems that use elements present in nature. But also, and above all, the education of users on “how to keep the installation clean and in optimal working order” is part of the “water Connections” program. On the other hand, it should be noted that individual practices also play an essential role in determining the quality of the water that we make available to the villagers here in East Sumba.
We create water connections, look…
The first idea was to treat people at the source of their health problems because our medical teams and us allow the expression: “-We were a little tired of giving medicine with a glass of inedible water. …”. And as we have told you many times before, the vast majority of patients who come to us are primarily because of the poor quality of the water they use. But also because they simply don’t have enough or no water.
The 1st toilets of the village are almost finished
Sanitary facilities, showers, toilets, a wastewater collection tank… This was a pilot project for the foundation. Today it is something normal. How do we build healthy, ecological, environmentally friendly sanitary facilities using mainly local materials (apart from sand, iron and cement)? How not to waste the water we found by drilling so deep here in Mbinudita? Where had drilling never been attempted? How to reuse wastewater to be able to water the gardens, the plants, and the vegetables that do so much good to and improve the lives of everyone here? It was a challenge, but it is now a reality.
Pest outbreaks in East Sumba
In East Sumba, for several months now (and for years), grasshoppers have been destroying all crops, vegetable gardens, soybeans, and corn. For three years, it has come back regularly. They feed and severely damage almost all crops, trees, shrubs, and vegetable gardens during high population. We are in contact with the most affected populations who tell us how the fruit of their work and garden are destroyed in a few minutes. The impact is enormous for these poor families since their income is insufficient to buy food. Rice, in particular, is expensive. Therefore corn harvests are significant and vital for families.
Truck of Life goes everywhere almost no one goes
The truck of Life is so important… It allows us to go where almost no one ever goes. To meet people who have unexpected problems. To provide medical care, to take children or even a doctor or dentist to the nearest town. Truck of Life allows us to bring equipment, food, and drinking water where no one goes while ensuring the safety of our volunteers and specialized collaborators. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of people live in the most inaccessible territories who do not have access to the most basic needs to ensure a healthy life: No access to medical care, drinking water, or a light source for children to read or study.
Building healthy sanitation facilities in rural areas
We are building safe and healthy sanitation facilities for these reasons: Ending defecation in the open rather than in toilets will have “transformational benefits” for the most vulnerable people in East Sumba. Open defecation is when people defecate in the open -for example, in fields, forests, bushes, lakes and rivers rather than toilets. We find that of the hundreds of thousands of people who practice open defecation, 91% live in rural areas. An increase in the population of the regions in which we work leads to a localized increase in open defecation.
Building a 6,500-litre Ferro-cement tank
Building a water storage tank is something simple but complicated at the same time. Working day and sometimes night too, sleeping under challenging conditions, eating little and walking a lot… This is the life of the Fair Future and Kawan Baik teams in the field, every day for months with the support and unconditional support of the villages where we are setting up a new program. We are very involved in all the constructions, be it the reservoirs but also the healthy sanitary installations, the water connections, the filtration systems, and so many other things which, put together, create infrastructures which make them more useful, simpler life.
Khris Praing, Bupati of East-Sumba to Mbinudita site
The Mbinudita school is now an official school, which falls within the bosom of the schools of the Indonesian state. A huge ceremony that took more than 4 days of preparation took place on June 25, 2022 on the #sdmbinudita school site. In the presence of the Regent of East Sumba, Drs. Khristofel Praing and a number of officials, we have been able to visit the facilities already in place and built as part of the clean water access project for more than 2,500 people. Doing it on a motorcycle with the Bupati was exceptional!
Days of medical care in rural areas
Discover the different contexts and situations in which Fair Future teams intervene to provide care, including crisis and natural disaster situations, and how and why we adapt our activities to each. Days of care like the one we present to you below we do dozens of them a year and they are adapted to people from rural areas, who for the most part have never seen a doctor before us.
Water Connections Mbinudita, the beginning of adventure
Water connections are not just about giving water to an entire community! Water is defined by where we live and our needs. Things are so different between the modern world and the rural world, and the definition of water takes on another meaning. What do you need? What do they need? What do they want? Through our actions, we respond to their actual needs: to have clean water, to drink more, to eat better, to shower regularly, to grow vegetables, to germinate their seeds, and therefore to have a healthier, more harmonious life. . happier! We support an entire community of people around water, more than 250 families and 2,500 people, 70% of whom are children living in a highly rural area Water in quality and quantity thanks to the #waterconnections project as part of #rebuildmbinudita.