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COVID-19 in East Indonesia, we really need your help!
The situation here in eastern Indonesia, the lack of state response, in order to deal with the severity of the pandemic here. With a population of 268 million, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world. Faced with the pandemic, the country seems overwhelmed and deprived of means, materials, logistical and organizational strategy, leaving tens of millions of people behind. Fair Future and Kawan Baik are asking for aid from States, banks, the International Monetary Fund in order to detect, test, vaccinate, take care of families, sick people – But also to put in place preventive actions, massive tests, and solutions for infected people. In any case, we cannot sit idly by.
Swiss Gov donates to the Indonesian Gov! And us?
Glad to see that Switzerland sent medical material to Indonesia!! But as Swiss Official Organisation, we are sorry to say that we have no illusions that how this vital material will be distributed, used! For sure, in Jakarta, the modern cities of java, and the people in the big hospitals. Some will be sold probably also, as COVID-19 here is also a matter of business! And unfortunately, nothing will be issued! Here, in the ultra-peripheral and rural regions of eastern Indonesia, where the Fair Future Foundation and its teams are currently located… Why did the Swiss Government give to a corrupt country? And not an honest Swiss Legal NGO?
COVID-19 Situation & Action Program in NTT – We act strongly!
The situation in eastern Indonesia, the lack of state response, in order to deal with the severity of the pandemic here. Fair Future and Kawan Baik are asking for aid from States, banks, the International Monetary Fund in order to detect, test, vaccinate, take care of families, sick people – But also to put in place preventive actions, massive tests, and solutions for infected people. In any case, we cannot sit idly by.
Project evaluation. Clean water access point in Mauliru village, Sumba
After more than three weeks on-site with the Truck of Life, Fair Future is on the site of the 1st Access Point to clean water and toilets. The work today is coming to an end and in a few days, it is over 250 people going to provide toilets, clean water and showers. Access to clean water and toilets. What is it like to go to the bathroom here and elsewhere?
Truck of Life, Truck of Health Medical Care in Kangeli, East-Sumba
Truck of Life, Truck of health. Providing medical care in a remote village in East Sumba, close to Lewa. Desa Kangeli, where more than 120 people, essentially children have received medical care, medical treatments, food, clothes, games, books, and fun with the Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia foundations.
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.