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A “central water point” for 250 people, 39 families from East Sumba
Fair Future has just allocated a fund of IDR.148’000’000.- in order to proceed to the drilling of a deep well in order to provide clean water to a population of 250 people. This includes toilets and a place to wash and create social activities around the theme of water. This water center also aims to improve the health of people, especially children. A project by Fair Future, Kawan Baik, and the Indonesian Red Cross.
Fair Future response to the Sumba East disaster in pictures
Thousands of patients, medical care, hundreds of wounds to treat, a few tons of drugs donated, hundreds of kilos of vitamins, minerals, tens of tons of food, hundreds of thousands of liters of water, nearly 100 water tanks, including metal frames, fittings, pipes so that families, villages, communities, and vulnerable people do not die of hunger or thirst.
Photos taken by our teams related to the Sumba East disaster
These Images were taken by the teams of Fair Future and Kawan Baik Foundations. They show the extent of the damage as we all experienced it there. Being the only NGO on site, Fair Future coordinated the activities of tens (hundreds) of volunteers, from its strategic center in Lambanapu (Rumah kambera)
The real situation in east Sumba. A health and social emergency. What do we need
Almost 15 days after the natural disaster, Fair Future Switzerland is the only international organization on-site to face immense health, health, social, infrastructural, and human challenges. We are doing all we can, going everywhere to provide medical care, bring water and food in droves, and plan the reconstruction of many infrastructures and houses.
A long work of cartography and studies of the damage and needs
Fair Future and Kawan Baik Foundations travel a lot, act a lot in order to respond in the most correct way possible to the immense needs of the population, of vulnerable people, including children, the elderly and pregnant women.
Free health and medical care for over 250 people
For the Forgotten of Sumba, Fair Future and Kawan baik Indonesia gave free health & medical care to more than 250 people, the vast majority of whom were children: Malnutrition, amemias, respiratory problems, injuries, skin infections were the most common problems, the more frequently encountered here.
Sumba disaster, the dam no longer exists
The river and the cyclone destroyed everything in their path on these first days of April 2021.
The dam no longer exists. This dam was a vital and critical element in order to bring water and irrigate the thousands of small canals on more than 4,000 hectares of rice fields and various crops. These 4,000 hectares are there to feed the population of the island.
Tons of vital supplies have arrived in our Base Camp in East Sumba
Movie | 8 tons of vital goods, drugs, medical supplies, food, filters, tents, 2 Genset, clothes etc.. has arrived in East Sumba to the Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia Base Camps in Kambera (Lambanapu).
6-8 tons of good are on their way to Sumba NTT
Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia foundations have prepared 6-8 tons of material which has been loaded into trucks, which will arrive at the Sumba NTT site on April 13, 2021. Foundation teams will be there to receive them. Food, medical supplies, clothes, 2 generators (Genset), water filters, pipes and many others things to cook, to sleep as tents, blankets etc…
Natural disaster in Sumba and eastern Indonesia
Natural disaster in Sumba and eastern Indonesia. An update on the ongoing disaster in East Sumba. The deadly floods, the health situation and the position of Fair Future, of Kawan Baik Indonesia on the spot, thanks to their constant commitments.
Report 2020 – Christmas in Lapinu – East Sumba
Christmas and New Year celebrations in small isolated and rural villages of East Sumba. Gifts for children, eating together, cooking together, dancing together, singing together. receive gifts from Santa Claus and just be happy together. During this Christmas 2019, the village of Lapinu does not have access to electricity, we have installed two solar lamps to illuminate the village and the faces of all the inhabitants.
Report 2020 – MbinuDita school building
Build a school that was destroyed by the storm. A school perched on a hill in the midst of the dry, arid hills of East Sumba. This without water, without electricity, with three skilled workers, the employees of Fair Future and the community of MbinuDita who had never seen this before … Successful bet, the school is built.
Sumba Photo Stories, some news from the East Exhibition
The Virtual exhibition is online until the 20.03.2021. What is the most urgent, the biggest problem? You just have to ask them. Thanks to this photo project, the children describe to us through their images, the difficulties of their daily lives. Another approach to defining needs, describe the socio-culture conditions. A project made by children for their environment! We just have to watch and listen.
Knowing does not mean understanding
Elisa talks about her stay on the #RebuildMbinuDita site here in East Sumba, her relationships with people, her vision of the project and her physical and emotional involvement in her work with the Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia. After months and months of looking at it in photos and videos, it is there, in front of me. And other information turns into understanding…
In Sumba, pests destroy crops and starve populations! We can help them!
In East Sumba, In addition to the pandemic, the economic crisis that is hitting hard on the populations of one of the poorest regions of Indonesia, farmers have to face a real scourge: Pests that destroy crops and therefore starve populations. These include caterpillars and grasshoppers among other plant pests.
We are there to help these populations to survive, with all of you!
How can we help keeping children learning during the COVID-19 pandemic?
School closures have devastating consequences for children’s learning and wellbeing. The most vulnerable children and those unable to access remote learning are hit even harder, as they are at an increased risk of never returning to the classroom, sometimes forced into child labor and even child marriage. Schoolchildren globally also rely on their schools as a place to interact with peers, seek support, access health and immunization services, and a nutritious meals. The longer schools remain closed, the longer children are cut off from these critical elements of childhood.