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Primary Medical Care dedicato ai bambini
Questo "Immagine del giorno" shows children who, thanks to the "Primary Medical Care" programme, learn to protect themselves against illness and injury through simple gestures and habits. Children in these regions do not have access to health centres, and no doctors are present in these villages (apart from those from the Fair Future and/or Kawan Baik Indonesia foundations). It makes prevention an essential component of their health and well-being. Children in ultra-rural areas can significantly reduce their risk of illness or injury by incorporating simple habits and actions into their daily routines. In addition, it is essential to make children and parents aware of the importance of these habits and gestures so that they become part of their daily lives.
Giving primary medical care is not insignificant. It usually is doctors and nurses who do this. This is what makes this program unique in terms of innovation. Those who provide care, life-saving drugs and cures for Malaria, for example, are the teachers of this isolated village in eastern Indonesia. Therefore, for us here on site, it is essential to assess the impact and effectiveness of this program regularly. We carry out surveys, and we meet to collect medical data. We, therefore, highlight the areas where we can make the necessary changes. If this primary medical care program is a huge success, it is because it involves the communities in the various planning and implementation processes.
Teachers and parents of ill or injured children provide us with essential information. This 100% medical emergency program is in the process of success. It requires multiple collaborations, adequate ongoing training, sharing of supported cases and regular evaluation to ensure its safety, effectiveness and sustainability.
La malnutrizione sta avendo il suo effetto anche qui, dove siamo
Questo "Immagine del giorno" shows children in East Sumba, where we are at work, as I post this Photo of the Day. Fair Future and Kawan Baik teams, as part of the #kawansehat #primarymedicalcare and #waterconnections projects, cook for children in the most rural and poor areas. In this image, some are drinking strawberry milk for the first time. They had never seen a straw before, and I remember all the kids asking us how to drink that kind of drink. We had to show them and help them plant the straw in the milk carton.
Malnutrition is an endemic problem here in all the rural villages of East Sumba. It is also the region with the highest rate of malnourished children in Indonesia. Here, clean water is absent from the houses, and the consumption of unclean water generates health problems and serious illnesses. And to cook, drink, and wash, you need water. And in order not to get sick, you also need water. Food production cannot occur without water, and families do not have enough income to buy food, rice and vegetables. On average, they live with less than two litres of water per person per day for everything: cooking, eating, drinking, drinking, bathing, going to the toilet and doing laundry. Have you ever tried?
Most children here are underweight and malnourished because they cannot eat enough. Meal frequency is one meal per day. Young children may be able to eat twice if all goes well. The menu will consist of rice and corn because more than rice alone is needed. In East Sumba, a kilo of rice costs three times more than in Java or Bali. Only a little salt and peppers accompany the meal to give flavour and taste.
Per la prima volta nella nostra vita abbiamo un bagno!
Questo "Immagine del giorno" shows you an adorable couple from East Sumba, the village of #mbinudita -who are not used to being photographed-. Beneficiaries of the #waterconnections program who have had access to toilets at home for a few hours. But not only toilets: They can shower there, wash their clothes, and create a vegetable garden. And most importantly, eat and drink healthily. No more getting sick from the water. No more spending hours on the paths to fetch a few litres of dirty water.
East Sumba is one of the regions in the world with the highest rate of malnourished children. Infant mortality due to lack of clean water and toilets is staggering. Our medical teams still spend much of their time giving medical treatment and medicine to people and children who don't have clean water to swallow. Or how to treat a child who suffers from diarrhoea by giving him tablets that he will have to drink with inedible water, the source of his illness? Say to cook the water? It has no wood; frankly, when you're thirsty, you drink what's there.
But here, things have changed dramatically. Over thirty healthy sanitation facilities and over forty clean water tanks have been built for these almost 280 #rebuildmbinudita families. Every week we see new vegetable gardens created, many more children going to school, including young girls, and more mothers looking after their families instead of walking for hours to fetch five litres of dirty water.
Quando rimane solo acqua sporca da cercare di sopravvivere
Questo "Immagine del giorno"Si vede che alcuni bambini guardano un po" delusi il bordo del pozzo, che non contiene acqua. Rimane solo 30-50 centimetri d'acqua. Questo liquido è nero e sporco e sicuramente li farà ammalare. Ma lo porteranno via perché, come mi dicono spesso i contadini: "Quando hai sete, non hai tempo di bollire l'acqua o di trovare acqua pulita. Hai sete, quindi bevi quello che c'è...".
L'acqua pulita guarisce le persone, migliora la salute delle famiglie e riduce le malattie. L'acqua è il miglior farmaco al mondo.
Qui Laindatang, nella comunità, i suoi abitanti e le famiglie hanno sempre massimizzato l’utilizzo dell’acqua piovana per cucinare, mangiare e bere. Il lavaggio e la lavatrice vengono effettuati contemporaneamente: le persone si lavano i corpi con detergenti direttamente presso la fonte dell’acqua. In concomitanza con la mancanza di acqua, i residenti lavano i propri corpi solo una volta al mese – con le conseguenti conseguenze per la salute – o, nel migliore dei casi, ogni due settimane.
Va notato che queste famiglie non hanno mai avuto servizi igienici. Le urla e le feci vengono fatte dietro un albero, con tutti i problemi di salute che ne conseguono. Per le donne in menopausa, la mancanza di acqua rende questo periodo molto complicato.
Una emergenza sanitaria: Vi invitiamo a sostenere il programma urgente nel villaggio di Laindatang, In East Sumba, ciò si realizza fornendo l’acqua il più rapidamente possibile tramite un pozzo profondo, due impianti igienici funzionanti e due/tre serbatoi d’acqua da 6.750 litri per queste centinaia di persone. Cliccate sul pulsante qui sotto.
I bambini di qui devono andare a prendere l'acqua già a partire dai cinque anni!
Questo "Immagine del giorno" shows you a five-year-old girl who, twice a day, descends the hill, steep and stony, without shoes to fetch water. She runs to go to the source, 500m away. Sometimes she falls, hurts herself, and comes back up with difficulty carrying a 5-litre jerrycan of not-so-clean water, which she and her friends have been looking for at the source.
In this village, like in many others here, people can only wash once a month, are all sick and don't have enough to eat and drink. Without access to this clean water, families – especially children – suffer from severe malnutrition, chronic respiratory and joint diseases and other illnesses linked to the consumption of dirty acqua and the absence of sanitation facilities. The fight against malaria, dengue fever and infectious diarrhoea also requires access to clean water and healthy water tanks. And to water that does not stagnate but circulates between the installations.
As we have already said, East Sumba is the poorest province in Southeast Asia, the region with the highest child malnutrition and associated mortality. Fait Future, therefore, wishes to act for these hundreds of people and give them access to clean and healthy water for their health.
East Sumba, un villaggio senza acqua pulita!
Questo "Immagine del giorno" mostra una donna entusiasta perché l'ultima volta che siamo stati qui "Water Connections – Laindatang" Sito del progetto, abbiamo portato – grazie ai Truck of Life – diversi bidoni di plastica pieni di acqua potabile, circa un centinaio di litri. Quindi tutti si stanno affrettando a prendere un po’ di acqua. Abbiamo condiviso questa acqua con i villagigiani.
Il Water Connections progetto, Laindatang Sito, è una località per la quale cerchiamo anche noi aiuto. Laindatang È un villaggio senza acqua potabile. La gente si lava solo una volta al mese, sono malati e non hanno abbastanza da mangiare e bere. Tutti i bambini sono sottopeso, così come gli adulti. Dobbiamo intervenire per questi centinaia di persone e dar loro accesso all’acqua potabile. Il progetto consiste nel scavare un pozzo profondo, costruire strutture igieniche sane e due serbatoi per l’acqua pulita, di tipo ferro-cemento, con una capacità di 6.500 litri ciascuno.
Qui Malaria, La febbre da Dengue e la diarrea infettiva legate ai problemi dell’acqua contaminata stanno causando gravi disagi. Dopo aver effettuato gli studi di fattibilità, siamo ora pronti a realizzare questo progetto questo mese. Infatti, siamo già sul posto e vorremmo iniziare questo progetto necessario per le centinaia di persone che soffrono di carenza d’acqua nella regione.
Water Connections progetto in Laindatang
Il Water Connections progetto, Laindatang Site, è attualmente la nostra priorità assoluta. Laindatang È un villaggio senza acqua. Tutti sono malati e non hanno abbastanza da mangiare e bere. I bambini sono sottopeso, così come gli adulti. Dobbiamo intervenire per questi centinaia di persone e garantire loro l'accesso a acqua pulita.
Scopri come fornire Primary Medical Care
Questo "Immagine del giorno" shows you one of the classes of brave women (and two or three men) who learn with our teams how to give first aid – Primary Medical Care which is the most important – to a person or a sick or injured child.
These first days of medical training welcomed around sixty participants from the most isolated and rural villages. To give you an idea, folks, none of these villages has access to clean or safe water, and only a few have access to some electricity. There is often no road leading there, but only paths that are often impassable. And, of course, no medical centre or health centre near the villages.
The participants are 95% women, and all are teachers in the school of their ultra-rural region. What they have been doing for a few months now is remarkable. They heal and undoubtedly save lives, see here some images taken with their mobile phone.
Aside from being most undoubtedly unique in the world, the magic of this "primary medical care" program is that it works. The first batch of about 60 teachers who have undergone training in rural primary medical care are now gaining more and more confidence, and hundreds of urgent medical care are being provided to the children of sick or injured adults. Lives are being saved.
In a few days, Fair Future Foundation con Kawan Baik Indonesia will evaluate this program directly from the villages, in the company of those who are its heroes, all these extraordinary women.
Il Water Connections Programma, in un'unica immagine
Questo "Immagine del giorno" shows you what the #watwerconnections program could look like from a technical side. Be a real "puzzle" that takes into account variables such as height differences, capacities, volumes, heights, distances, pressures and flow rates, diameters, inches, depths, quality, PH, watts, volts, solar and the panels that go with it, the notions of AC and DC, day and night working hours, eating yes but when? Sleep, yes but when? The number of families and children who will be there to help us today?
But Fair Future and Amici buoni, together with the villagers of this region of East Sumba, NTT, in just under 18 months, we have provided access to drinking water and toilets to more than 250 families, i.e. nearly 2,800 people, more than 65% of whom are bambini under the age of 12. Clean water is the best medicine and also the cheapest.
And as I write these few lines, we are drilling, treating, operating, prescribing and training. And you can always sostegno Fair Future's technical and medical teams by donating. Your gesture will go a long way in helping us continue to help them have better health and a healthier life.
We invite you to look at the Water Connections project map here, Kawan.
Una semplice storia sui bidoni di plastica nell'East Sumba
Due litri d’acqua al giorno e per persona per vivere. E questo grazie a un oggetto innocuo quanto un vecchio bidone da cinque litri. Un bidone di plastica stupido? Per la maggior parte di noi è un oggetto che finirà irrimediabilmente in discarica. Ma qui, per le famiglie con cui Fair Future e Kawan Baik lavorano – decine di migliaia di famiglie – è essenziale per…
Le lattine per il succo di frutta qui nell'East Sumba valgono l'oro.
Questo "Immagine del giorno" shows you a young girl between ten and twelve, returning from the only water point in the village. She had to walk a few kilometres to fetch these five (5) litres of water, which is unhealthy since everyone does the laundry at this water source. This small amount of water will be used by his family, who, on average, can only use 2 to 3 litres per day per person. Posizione: Mata Air Payianu, Prai Paha, Nggaha Oriangu, Sumba Timur, NTT.
The jerry cans? They are essential because it is the only, or cheapest, way to fetch water from wells and distant water sources. They're also handy as they have a cap, but all here also use plastic to make a rudimentary 'seal' to make the container even more airtight, so you don't lose any water along the way. These cans are old 5-litre cooking oil cans. Once empty, people have to buy them expensively for their water needs. Some are years old and have travelled thousands of miles on the heads of these East Sumba children.
Qui a Casa Kambera, Fair Future and Kawan Baik staff have recovered quite a few ancient ones. We exchanged them for new ones, which we brought filled with water, clean and healthy with the Truck of Life.
In a few days, we will be there and collect more old jerrycans. They are true testimonies, like certain people's faces: Marked by hours of walking and exhausting work, fatigue exhaustion; these are often beautiful faces that we don't forget.
La mia famiglia avrà dei servizi igienici in casa
Questo "Immagine del giorno vi mostra una famiglia che guarda al Futuro Equo e Amici buoni Le squadre che stanno terminando la costruzione dei primi bagni nella storia di questa famiglia, di questo piccolo gruppo di case. È un evento incredibile per tutti loro che fino ad ora andavano in natura per fare pipì e cacare. Luogo: Prai Paha, Nggaha Oriangu, Sumba Timur, NTT.
Questi servizi igienici fanno parte di più di quaranta servizi igienici – strutture igieniche sane – costruito dalla Fondazione nell'ambito del #waterconnections progetto in East-Sumba. Inoltre, abbiamo dovuto perforare tre pozzi profondi e costruire più di trenta serbatoi d’acqua con una capacità variabile tra 3.500 e 24.000 litri, tutti collegati da decine di migliaia di metri di tubi in HDPE.
