We will construct eight ferrocement tanks in Hambarita to provide clean water to isolated families. Six of these are currently funded, but two remain unfunded. 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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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.
The impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on children is dvastating!
With the rapid closure of schools around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, children and young people, especially those living in crisis contexts, have lost an important space that provided them with stability, so even as the environment around them kept growing uncertain. The economic shocks caused by COVID-19 have had devastating consequences by deepening the poverty and food insecurity that many families were already facing, including those living in contexts facing pre-existing challenges. The mental health of adults and children deteriorated as they were confined to their homes; Both governmental and non-governmental agencies have reported a significant increase in violence and other threats that specifically target children and young people.
A word from Alex | We live a real humanitarian and food crisis!
2020, 2021, 2022 will be years of food and health disasters, here in Indonesia but also in the world, especially in under developing countries and those like here, where the population is not the main concern of the authorities. federal. Covid-19, Tuberculosis, Dengue Fever, malnutrition, economic poverty, even less access to medical care than before… And people are trying to live… And Fair Future is doing the best it can to help as much people as possible!