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The March 31, 2022

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Extract | Having clean water close to home is a real challenge that Fair Future and Kawan Baik have taken on, so that the more than 2,200 villagers of Mbinudita can have clean water in their homes for the first time in their lives. This is so that everyone's life is healthier, happier on all fronts, clearly more harmonious. Even if it is very hard physically, sometimes morally because we are isolated from everything and everyone, there is not a day during which we are not happy to be able to work within the framework of this immense project, one of the largest ever conducted by the Swiss foundation and its Indonesian twin sister, Kawan Baik Indonesia foundation.

Wherever we are working, cases & environments is unique. Nevertheless, Fair Future & Kawan Baik Indonesia follow a common set of practices designed to ensure that their resources & expertise are used in an optimal and respectful manner.

We are improving the health of populations through access to clean water, by creating deep wells, water networks, sanitary facilities by building toilets, showers, watertight tanks of more than 6,000 litres, which allow keeping the water away from light, at normal temperature, in order to reduce the risk of water conservation.

Today at the end of March 2022, we can say that this water that we have been looking for more than 50m deep, sometimes several kilometres from the reservoirs that we have built with the villagers of #sdmbinudita, is safe for consumption. We have tested it & it is healthy, even mineral. The alkalinity is also good, which is perfect for neutralising acids. Its level is 180mg/l (Optimal level is 20-200 mg/litre).

This water, which is now contained in these new reservoirs, extends into several RT (groups of typical Sumbanese Houses). It will bring health, income because they will be able to sell their vegetables. This will have an impact on underweight & malnutrition problems, as they will be able to eat produce from their gardens. The reduction in child morbidity & serious diseases intrinsically linked to poor water quality & the consequences of related diseases will also decrease.

These kids will have more strength to walk the several km that separate them from school, they will be able to concentrate more, no longer fall asleep at school, assimilate in an optimal way the teachings of the teachers, they will be able to take a shower every day, eat more than once a day too. And so many other things that have already changed; we see it every day here as part of the #waterconnections project.

Out of 6 reservoirs built by us, 90% are made by the villagers. They learned with us, they duplicate and we are there to help them.

#fairfuturefoundation #kawanbaik #wateraccesss #cleanwater #truckoflife #healthyfood #healthylifestyle #swissngo #shoolaccess #healthatschool #wateraccess #safewater #cleanwater #airbersih

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An absolute emergency | #waterconnections - Laindatang site, East Sumba. A project entirely linked to the program to combat water-related infectious diseases, malnutrition and infant mortality. The fight against Malaria in East Sumba is one of our priorities with the primary medical care project for children in ultra-rural areas. This achievement will save lives here.

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Water Connections - The Map

That of the Water Connections Project can be seen here Kawan. What remains to be done so that everyone has access to clean and healthy water?

There are more than forty toilets, more than thirty tanks between 3,500 and 25,000 litres, three deep boreholes, more than fifteen kilometres of HDPE pipes that we have buried, and thousands of fittings and taps. See the full Map here.

Testimony and speaking out

Our proximity to communities and families in distress implies a duty to raise awareness to improve their living conditions or their situation.

The Fair Future or Kawan Baik teams may witness violence, injustice, and deliberate acts and must testify.

Testimony is the act of becoming aware, in private or public, of what we see or have seen happening in front of us and by documenting these acts, we report.

Sometimes Fair Future speaks out publicly to highlight a crisis, expose abuses, challenge the diversion of aid, or speak out against policies that restrict access to health care, education, food and all other forms of social protection.

Supply and logistics

Fair Future already helps thousands of families every year but we are struggling!

However, one of our main problems is that we don’t have enough equipment and not enough medicine when we should always have enough material for the work to be done and for the patients to be treated.

In particular for the response to emergencies or in the event of natural disasters, when supplies must be needed within 24 hours.

But also for long-term programs, where a regular supply of equipment and drugs is essential. Fair Future and its teams cannot respond to and deal with all requests due to a lack of resources.

Minimization of risks for everyone

The actions carried out on the ground by the Fair Future and Kawan Baik teams are based solely on needs, regardless of political, economic or other interests.

On the ground but also everywhere else, our teams communicate and dialogue on a daily basis with communities, village authorities and regional governments, to facilitate access and supply to medical care, clean water, and food sufficient for the inhabitants of villages and rural communities.

Fair Future and Kawan Baik do everything possible to minimize the risks for our teams and the villagers to provide them with what they need.

The Fair Future teams

“You never know when it will happen, but it will happen again.”

When a health or social crisis affects one of the regions in which we are already, the Kawan Baik (good friends) of Fair Future who are present will mobilize to assist.

Fair Future, as it often does, can mobilize personnel from the region with whom we often work, including a group of over one hundred volunteers. Specialists can also be sent on-site from one of its logistics bases in Denpasar or Waingapu. Our teams include medical personnel, logisticians, water specialists, and project managers.

Water Connections project in Laindatang Village

This village currently lacks access to water, resulting in widespread illness and malnutrition. Both children and adults are underweight and have insufficient access to food and water.

This village currently lacks access to water, resulting in widespread illness and malnutrition. Both children and adults are underweight and have insufficient access to food and water.

It is imperative that we take action to provide hundreds of people with access to clean water. The prevalence of diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and infectious diarrhoea linked to contaminated water sources has taken a significant toll in this region. With the feasibility studies completed, we are ready to work.

Your click can make a difference in the lives of over a hundred families living in extreme conditions in this village by providing them with access to clean water and toilets.

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