We will construct seven ferrocement tanks in Laindatang to provide clean water to isolated families. Three of these are funded, but four are still needed. We require CHF 2,300.- for each tank. Your support guarantees access to clean water for the most remote communities. Donate now and be part of this life-changing project.
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Water is when we don’t have it that we realise how important it is!
Water we do not realize how important it is when we have access to it like that, by opening a simple tap and sometimes forgetting to close it. Water is when we don’t have it that we realize how important it is, how vital it is for our everyday life. So for a moment, let’s try to imagine what our life could be like without water. And if we have access to it, that this water is not consumable! This is what the families experience here, the children of all these villages in which Fair Future works almost 24 hours a day. The health of people, the prevention of diseases, the reduction of infant mortality, offering a better quality of life, food every day, a shower every day and for everyone are just a few aspects that oblige us to work and develop. innovative and sustainable solutions, relating to access to water in quantity and quality for families in the poorest and rural regions.
Magic works, construction continues, people are happy, there is water!
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.
Without or with very little water and food, it is very difficult to go to school!
Go to school, learn, concentrate, walk… All this with little water and food! This is the challenge faced by thousands of kids, their teachers and families. Not having enough water when you are a child, sometimes having to walk several kilometres to get to school. Not having enough to eat, not being able to wash. The difficulties of the teachers, their testimonies are revealing of the food, economic and access to water crisis which the children and their families have to face every day of their lives. Fair Future and Kawan Baik try to respond in the best possible way to these vital problems. Avoid malnutrition, improve health, provide access to a source of clean water so that children can go to school and learn in the best possible conditions.
Lifestyle habits: “-Because we’ve been doing it for a long time”
Pollution of streams and natural springs and everywhere. It is rare to find still pure sources whose water is not dangerous for health. Fair Future, within the framework of its prevention programs and access to better health, meets people from the most rural and poor regions of this immense country, offers affordable, simple and understandable solutions for all. At the same time, we are building clean water networks, we are drilling deep wells to provide access to quality water, in quantity, to families, children and vulnerable people.
Water Connections – Where are we right now in building this project?
THE project is progressing well, it is a constant investment of time. We work on the sites every day and thanks to the families of the village of MbinuDita, we are progressing really well. The water now arrives at the top of the hill, where our school is For the first time in the life of the village of #rebuildmbinudita, almost all families have access to clean water in quantity and quality. We are finishing the construction of ten reservoirs of 6200 liters, kilometers of pipes are buried, electricity feeds the pumps in the wells. The construction of the sanitary facilities will be able to begin soon.
The Water Crisis in Indonesia – Focus in Napu, Wunga, Sumba Timur
Drinking contaminated water can lead to serious health problems. Cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, scabies, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, hepatitis, malnutrition and poliomyelitis, significant metabolic fatigue causing disorders of all vital systems, to death.
In the long term, consumption of water loaded with heavy metals, pesticides, nitrates and other chemical components such as arsenic are likely to cause serious congenital malformations in newborns: Limb deformation, hydro-encephalitis and other physical or mental disabilities.
Water Connections Mbinudita, the beginning of the adventure
Access to water is not just a matter of providing it to a community. It is closely tied to our location and individual needs. The modern and rural worlds have vastly different interpretations of what water means. To address the needs of the people we serve, we strive to provide clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and irrigation. By doing so, we aim to improve their quality of life, health, and happiness. Our #waterconnections project has benefitted over 250 families and 2,500 people, with 70% of them being children residing in a remote rural area. Thanks to #rebuildmbinudita, water is now available in both quality and quantity.
Water Connections, the ongoing project on the MbinuDita Site
Where are we with MbinuDita’s Water Connections project? What are the funds that we have already collected, those that we have already invested in this vital project like never before for more than 2000 people without access to clean water? We present to you via a small infographic what we have already done, what remains to be done and the schedule for the next steps.
Fair Future will purchase a deep well drilling machine for #WaterConnections
In order to allow access to drinking water to those who do not have it, within the framework of the program for access to medical care and improvement of the health of the populations of the outermost regions of the east of Indonesia, Fair Future has decided to invest CHF. 9,500.-, i.e. IDR. 145,000,000.-, for the acquisition of a deep well drilling machine. A machine for drilling more than 130 meters deep, in one of the regions where access to water is extremely difficult… This investment is part of the “Water Connections” projects.
Water Connections Project – A life without water in MbinuDita village
Have you wondered what your life would be like if you didn’t have water at home? No toilet, no place to wash? What if the little water available was often unsuitable? Dangerous for the health of the most fragile? Deadly?
#waterconnections, This is why this project is important for us but especially for them. The right to have good health is a non-existent concept when water is present neither in quality (unsuitable, dangerous…) nor in quantity (a few liters per day only for an entire family). By Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia
Water Connections – Tender for the purchase of a deep well drilling machine
We are tendering for a deep well drilling machine, which will be used in drinking water and health improvement programs, by Fair Future and Kawan Baik, in eastern Indonesia, especially in the rural and outlying areas of East Sumba. Where we operate. Are you a local business? Located in East Java, Bali? And you want to build our future machine? So contact us to submit your best offer.
For the #WaterConnections Program, we have raised 42% of the budget!
We want to thank all those who help us in this project and are proud to announce that we received in donations, approximately 42% of the total budget. We encourage you all to do even more to carry out this vital project for more than 200 families, more than 2000 people, women, and children who do not have access to clean water. Without water in quantity and quality, living conditions cannot improve and people become sick and die. Without water, there is no green, no blue, no life. Without water, there are no plants, no trees, no fruits, no vegetables, no food.
Tuberculosis incidence in Indonesia in relation to the COVID pandemic!
The annual risk of TB infection in Southeast Asia is 1-2.5%, representing an upward trend for the region. In Indonesia, there are roughly 500,000 new cases of TB annually and 175,000 attributable deaths. Tuberculosis is the second major killer of adults after cardiovascular disease and the deadliest pathogen out of all communicable diseases. In global terms, there are one billion people infected with tuberculosis at any one time. Eight million new cases are reported annually with three million attributable deaths. However, despite these grim figures and without the influence of consistent treatment and immunization, its incidence is not as high as it was in the 20th century. The problem now is that with inadequate and inconsistent treatment regimes, a pool of persistent sputum-positive cases is being created!
How can you help for the Water Connections Program – MbinuDita site
You can help us finance part of this huge and complicated project. Indeed, we suggest you make a donation corresponding to a complete installation as explained in the pdf document attached to this post. This project is absolutely vital for more than 200 families in eastern Indonesia and is part of the “Water Connections” program, which itself aims to improve the health of people and children. Reduce infant mortality, illnesses linked to the consumption of unclean or even sometimes lethal water. Fair Future treats tens of thousands of people each year and the vast majority of our patients are sick from the water. If we really want to reduce diseases, then let’s work at the source of the problem: Let’s provide access to clean water. To do this, the foundation involves the women and men of the region, in the management of water resources, in sanitation solutions, by implementing safe hygiene practices in order to maximize the benefits for their communities.
2021 is going… 2022 is coming and Fair Future & Kawan Baik are still here!
2021 is going, 2022 is coming and the pandemic is part of our everyday life. We are coping as best we can, our resources are not unlimited and the needs are increasing considerably. One of the Foundation’s tasks is to ensure equitable access to water in quantity and quality, in order to prevent disease, maintain lives and livelihoods. It is about reducing environmental health risks by managing sanitation safely and with dignity. However, the foundation seeks to involve women and men in the management of water resources, in sanitation through the implementation of safe hygiene practices in order to maximize the benefits for their communities.
The Shades of Water or why access to clean water is important to us
One of the Foundation’s tasks is to ensure equitable access to water in quantity and quality, in order to prevent disease, maintain lives and livelihoods. This is to reduce environmental risks to health, by managing sanitation safely and with dignity. Still, the foundation seeks to involve women and men in the management of water resources, in sanitation by the implementation of safe hygiene practices in order to maximize the benefits for their communities.