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Clean Water Access Point in Mauliru village – East Sumba
The project to build an access point to clean water, deep borehole, toilets, showers, and washing clothes is underway. Here are the first photos of this project that we must multiply by 40! For a better health, a much better quality of life, increase their income because they will be able to cultivate a garden and especially germinate the seeds.
We activate the “Truck of Life” program by FFF and KBI
Fair Future and Kawan Baik Foundations are activating the “Truck of Life” program! It will leave for Sumba, by road, on June 12th, a 3 days trip! This truck aims to go where no one is going, to provide food, water, solutions for better health, medical care, books, and learning materials, but also the equipment that the foundation needs on-site…
Construction process of the first Central Water Points
Carrying out such projects seem trivial. Water is a matter that we generally popularise. And yet, here in rural areas of eastern Indonesia, it is a real challenge. Therefore, here is a document that presents the process of building the first Central Water Points, which Fair Future is building, for the benefit of the hundreds of families in East Sumba.
Water access, project study in Mauliru, Sumba East
From Sumba where we are now, we study and analyze the needs of people, in terms of access to clean water. We act daily to offer solutions aimed at ensuring that as many people as possible have access to clean water that is not dangerous to health, especially that of children.
Map of needs and actions initiated in East Sumba by Fair Future
This map is produced by the foundation’s teams, but also all the volunteers involved in the field from our local base camp in Sumba. It shows all ongoing actions initiated by Kawan Baik and Fair Future Foundations, those related to water, access to health care, destroyed infrastructure, food needs. In order to determine, quantify, find advantageous and really useful solutions in order to solve the hundreds of problems that are present here.
Participate in the drilling of a well, dedicated to 40 families, 250 people!
Providing clean water to all those who no longer have access to it, Fair Future, the Indonesian Red Cross are starting a program to provide access to drinking water for 42 villages, which for two months have no more water at all.
Sumba disaster, current situation, what we are going to do next!
The food crisis, the crisis linked to the lack of water, the lack of access to healthcare … What Fair Future is doing to remedy many problems on the spot, here in Sumba East. Well drilling, construction of community water points, free medical care, planning of the reconstruction phase …
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…