A health emergency | Laindatang is a village without clean water, toilets, or sanitary facilities. Malaria, Dengue, Cholera, and Hepatitis A are present because of the hygienic conditions. It is a place of extreme poverty, so we categorize this action as RED. We must get to work this month to ensure better living conditions for these families.

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Preamble: This primary medical care program in ultra-rural areas, which we initiated and started last year, is extraordinary, it saves lives. Since December 2022, the participants in the primary medical care program - who are the village teachers - have been providing first aid to children and villagers. They treat wounds, diseases, malaria, dengue fever. Images taken by teachers in their villages.

The primary medical care access program in rural villages is just amazing, it saves lives. Let’s do even more, starting this month.

Such a program needs to be evaluated together with those on the ground. It is also now necessary to supplement the stocks of the more than 60 pharmacies because the teachers provide a lot of medical care. Therefore, it is necessary to provide them with additional equipment and medicines.

Hello, this is Alex. How are you doing today? First of all and as usual, I wish you with all my heart to be fit, happy and healthy.

In order to end poverty and reduce inequalities In line with our Sustainable Development Goals, good health is essential for all. We are indeed more active when we are in good health.

As I quickly told you above, it is now time for us, the medical teams of Fair Future and Kawan Baik, to carry out an initial evaluation of the primary medical care program in ultra-rural regions.

A reminder for those who have not followed: This program aims to give the theoretical and practical means, to teachers in villages isolated from everything, to provide first medical care, in the event of injury or illness of a child or ‘an adult.

This Primary Medical Care Program focuses on certain populations, groups and communities that are excluded from health care access systems and left behind.

The theoretical means are complete training courses – modules lasting several days – on “how to give first aid when no health professional is present”. Training is given by doctors and social workers from our friends and partners who are: “Charis Sumba” and “Sumba Volunteers“.
See some pictures here: Day #1 – Day #2.

The theory is complemented by two books that Fair Future and Kawan Baik have produced. Ref: “Kawan Sehat” and “The first action if there is no doctor”. We also practice practical exercises in the classroom on How to save a life, heal an injury and learn how to give medicine. Therefore we also transmit basic medical knowledge about drugs.

We have distributed a complete pharmacy (or large first aid kits) to each of the teachers participating in this unique program in the world. This pharmacy box is made up of a large number of medical items, which have been donated and used since last December with patients. So we have to replace what has been used.

In view of the incredible success of this program, we also want to create a collection centre for medical equipment in order to complete what will soon be hundreds of pharmacies.

Field program evaluation

You can imagine that such a program requires “real doctors” to go on-site on a regular basis, to carry out an evaluation of medical actions and all these gestures which have already saved lives since last December. As you can see in the few photos below, taken by the teachers – most of the time in extreme conditions – hundreds of primary medical procedures have been applied since December 2022.

It is via the WhatsApp group that we receive the comments and the images that we show you here. It is also via WA that our medical teams answer questions from first-aid teachers almost every day. Their participation and investment in this program leave us all speechless; it is absolutely brilliant and the word is weak.

Therefore, it is from the end of this month of February that we are going to go on-site, to about ten villages -we will not be able to go everywhere-. Therefore, it is also planned to ask more than sixty participants to come for a day of sharing and questions and answers on the site of our Rumah Kambera Medico-Social Base Camp.

Of course, we will have to finance this medical equipment for these nearly one hundred pharmacies, and all this stock of equipment that we want to dedicate to this primary medical care program. From then on, you are extremely welcome to help us and help them in the event of a medical emergency. Thank you so much to support us.

We wish you a beautiful day wherever you are. Remember to take care of yourself and everyone you love. It is the most important.
Alex – Fair Future Foundation – 15.02.2023, Rumah Kambera.

Primary medical care is provided by teachers from rural schools in East Sumba.

They are not doctors or nurses. Thanks to the knowledge acquired during training modules in primary medical care, they are teachers who treat, save lives, detect the first symptoms of Dengue or the disease and act. These teachers, in their villages without water, electricity, road access and above all without doctors, provide medical care for injured or sick children and lives are saved!

The magic of this “Primary Medica Care” program? It’s just that it’s unique in the world, and it works. The first batch of sixty teachers who have followed the training in primary medical care in rural areas tells us about their “exploits” and their work as rescuers. They take confidence in themselves as the most important, and we note it. Medical care is given to children of sick or injured adults. Lives are being saved.

Since Fair Future and Kawan baik Indonesia foundations started this program by training more than sixty people and published two books (one for schools for children and the other for participants), the results are simply extraordinary. The enthusiasm of these new rescuers- who are, as a reminder, the teachers of these villages and ultra-rural regions of East Sumba-is merely remarkable. It exceeds all our wildest expectations. The images in this article show you some of the daily medical situations teachers face.

Photos are taken by mobile phone and uploaded to the “healthy friend” group via WhatsApp. The participants in this innovative program, “Primary medical care in rural areas”, which consists of empowering people, are all teachers who teach in schools isolated from everything (schools in the outermost regions). Read more information here, kawan.

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An absolute emergency | #waterconnections - Laindatang site, East Sumba. A project entirely linked to the program to combat water-related infectious diseases, malnutrition and infant mortality. The fight against Malaria in East Sumba is one of our priorities with the primary medical care project for children in ultra-rural areas. This achievement will save lives here.

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Water Connections - The Map

That of the Water Connections Project can be seen here Kawan. What remains to be done so that everyone has access to clean and healthy water?

There are more than forty toilets, more than thirty tanks between 3,500 and 25,000 litres, three deep boreholes, more than fifteen kilometres of HDPE pipes that we have buried, and thousands of fittings and taps. See the full Map here.

Testimony and speaking out

Our proximity to communities and families in distress implies a duty to raise awareness to improve their living conditions or their situation.

The Fair Future or Kawan Baik teams may witness violence, injustice, and deliberate acts and must testify.

Testimony is the act of becoming aware, in private or public, of what we see or have seen happening in front of us and by documenting these acts, we report.

Sometimes Fair Future speaks out publicly to highlight a crisis, expose abuses, challenge the diversion of aid, or speak out against policies that restrict access to health care, education, food and all other forms of social protection.

Supply and logistics

Fair Future already helps thousands of families every year but we are struggling!

However, one of our main problems is that we don’t have enough equipment and not enough medicine when we should always have enough material for the work to be done and for the patients to be treated.

In particular for the response to emergencies or in the event of natural disasters, when supplies must be needed within 24 hours.

But also for long-term programs, where a regular supply of equipment and drugs is essential. Fair Future and its teams cannot respond to and deal with all requests due to a lack of resources.

Minimization of risks for everyone

The actions carried out on the ground by the Fair Future and Kawan Baik teams are based solely on needs, regardless of political, economic or other interests.

On the ground but also everywhere else, our teams communicate and dialogue on a daily basis with communities, village authorities and regional governments, to facilitate access and supply to medical care, clean water, and food sufficient for the inhabitants of villages and rural communities.

Fair Future and Kawan Baik do everything possible to minimize the risks for our teams and the villagers to provide them with what they need.

The Fair Future teams

“You never know when it will happen, but it will happen again.”

When a health or social crisis affects one of the regions in which we are already, the Kawan Baik (good friends) of Fair Future who are present will mobilize to assist.

Fair Future, as it often does, can mobilize personnel from the region with whom we often work, including a group of over one hundred volunteers. Specialists can also be sent on-site from one of its logistics bases in Denpasar or Waingapu. Our teams include medical personnel, logisticians, water specialists, and project managers.

We focus on?

About the Malaria epidemic in eastern Indonesia

We need drugs to treat people - mostly children - who are affected in large numbers. Without adequate care, children under five, and vulnerable people die.

The need for medical equipment and medicines is essential at the moment. The authorities and the state services concerned do not care and do not have the means to buy the drugs that very many families should have to treat one of their own.

Our local medical teams say this: "-The disease mainly affects young children, those under the age of five, vulnerable people, especially those with immune systems weakened by other diseases linked to poverty and undernourishment. Pregnant women are also affected... We have nothing to treat them!".

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This new "Picture of the Day" shows you an example of construction that we carry out in the poorest villages of Indonesia and Asia. Here the families before did not have access to clean water and toilets. Fair Future and Kawan Baik Foundations have been changing this for years, and noticeable changes are being seen.

Access to drinking water and toilets is a fundamental human right. Still, unfortunately, in the regions where we are, nearly 90% of families in ultra-rural areas do not have access to these necessities. Here are some steps that can be taken to provide access to clean water and toilets in the regions that do not have access:

The first step is to identify the areas most needing these facilities. Fair Future and Kawan Baik proceed through research, surveys, and working with our local partners and authorities. Once regions that do not have access to clean water and toilets have been identified, we develop plans to provide these services. This takes into account the specific needs of each community. To do this, we have several ways to provide access to clean water, such as drilling deep wells, installing water filtration systems and collecting rainwater. The method used will depend on the specific needs of the community.

Access to toilets is also essential to reduce the rate of infectious diseases such as Cholera, Dengue, hepatitis A, and Malaria. In this photo, two sanitary facilities have been built using the Ferro-Cement method, with a tank for collecting dirty water and clean water for watering.

Fair Future also considers it essential to educate the community on the importance of hygiene and sanitation practices to prevent the spread of disease. We do this through the #waterconnections and #kawansehat and #primarymedicalcare programs.

One of our missions is also to monitor and maintain these new facilities. This requires the training of local community members who will carry out essential maintenance and repairs.