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These photographs are taken by our teams during their daily work. A consultation at home, a lesson under a new light, a water tap used for the first time: each image comes with the story of a person, a place or a shared task. The photographs and words are our own.
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What do the sanitary facilities we build look like?
Fair Future builds clean-water and sanitation facilities with rural communities where families previously had no safe toilets or reliable water access.
Inventing toys when you don’t have any
Children in rural Sumba often invent games and toys from natural or discarded materials, using imagination where manufactured toys are scarce.
Primary medical care dedicated to children
Children in remote East Sumba learn simple daily habits that can reduce illness and injury where access to professional healthcare is limited.
Malnutrition is taking its toll here where we are
Food insecurity, poverty and limited water access combine to worsen nutrition risks for children in remote East Sumba communities.
We have a toilet for the first time in our life!
A family in Mbinudita gains access to toilets, washing facilities and clean water at home through the Water Connections program.
When only dirty water remains to try to survive
Children in remote villages may still rely on very limited, visibly contaminated water when safer sources are unavailable.
Kids here have to fetch water from the age of five!
In remote East Sumba villages, young children often walk long distances carrying water for their families.
East Sumba, a village without clean water!
Families in Laindatang face severe water scarcity, making safe drinking water and sanitation a central priority for the Water Connections project.
Learn how to provide Primary Medical Care
Teachers and community health workers learn practical first aid and primary medical care for villages where professional healthcare is hard to reach.
The Water Connections Program, in a single image
Pipes, valves, pressure, elevation and storage all come together in Water Connections systems built for rural East Sumba communities.
Jerry cans here in East Sumba, are worth gold
Children and women in rural East Sumba often walk long distances carrying small jerry cans to bring water home for their families.
My family is going to have toilets at home
A rural East Sumba family sees its first household sanitation facilities completed through the Water Connections program.
