Rumah Kambera, medico-social Base Camp in Ester Indonesia
Fair Future base camp in eastern Indonesia. This is where everything happens, miracles too!Rumah Kambera – Fair Future Foundation Base Camp in East Sumba
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children
For their future and their health
Fair Future incorporates in all its choices and decisions taken in the context of its actions and field programs, the notions of risks for communities, what is good or bad for them, for people, children, and villages.
And for years, we have for mission to develop, support, and create humanitarian programs and actions linked to education, training, and medical care. This is why Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia have created Rumah Kambera, our Base Camp in the Eastern part of Indonesia.
Rumah Kambera in a few words, what is it?
A workplace, a social center, and an open door for all. A home for them, for us.
The foundation develops and implements actions in eastern Indonesia (NTT) and notably in East Sumba. To do so, we decided to coordinate our actions from what is now; “The Fair Future Base Camp” in the eastern regions of the country. In a village near Waingapu called Lambanapu.
Rumah Kambera is its name. This -house- is a place of coordination of all our socio-medical, and educational activities in favor of children, women, and communities in rural and peripheral regions where access to water, electricity, education, or health care is almost non-existent.
A place where everyone is welcome to lend a hand, offer a help project, or collaborate with the Foundation’s volunteers and collaborators as part of their activities and programs. In addition, it is also a place of exchanges, conferences, training, and workshops, a public, organic garden, and a place of experimentation on what works and what does not.
This House is running at full speed, and the activities that take place there are extraordinary. There is a dynamic that is rarely seen. We are hundreds: Volunteers, doctors, nurses, architects, builders, logisticians, specialists in access to water … It is a magical place.
Today, the Swiss foundation faces major challenges in terms of engagement in the field: Pandemic, Access to Water, Health, education or the simple fact of being able to go to school. !
Providing medical care, drinking water, light to study, build schools and improve solutions for access to knowledge, and primary care is our main priorities.
We created, realized, set up the project “Rumah Kambera” in this direction:
To improve the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of families and children, living in rural areas of eastern Indonesia.
What are we doing in Rumah Kambera?
- Covid-19 pandemic: Tests of the population, vaccinations, mapping of the situation, donation of healthy food, drinking water, information and prevention about the routes of contamination;
- Medical and health care: Rumah Kambera welcomes patients with health problems every day. Our pharmacy and our on-site medical team can help people take care of themselves through the donation of medicines, vitamins, and food supplements. The most common illnesses are related to lack of clean water, lack of healthy food, air pollution, joint and back problems, asthma, skin problems such as lipomas, fibroids, allergies, cancer;
- Access to clean water and sanitary facilities: Construction of central water points, drilling of wells, toilets by type, showers, biological filtration and information on the water, commit to preserve it and use it in a healthy way for people;
- Creation and construction of school infrastructures, schools, and health centers so that each can have access to health care and to school;
- Responses in the event of natural disasters (common in the region), reconstruction, preservation, emergency care, advanced first aid station, the establishment of emergency medical care, distribution of food, water, etc…;
- Truck of Life program: Medical care, distribution of food, construction materials, transporting medical teams to the sites, picking up a sick or injured person to bring them to the hospital, etc…;
- And all the other social, medical, and infrastructural activities linked to the mission of the foundation in the field;
FFF Base Camp NTT, East Sumba
Without proper care, a child’s early years can be the deadliest here. In Rumah Kambera, we take care of the children!
Fair Future has been observing for more than 12 years that the health risks for children are all the more serious the younger the child is: On average here, 85% of child deaths occur in children under the age of five, but 47% of these deaths occur during the neonatal period – the first 28 days of life.
Many of them arrive sick because they have not been sufficiently protected against the disease or have not received appropriate treatment when they needed it. There are still many gaps in the appropriate drugs, tools, protocols, and personnel to treat these young patients.
These are all factors that explain why children under five in low- and middle-income countries continue to lose their lives to infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria, and why newborn babies do not survive their first days. It’s also why older children face poor long-term health and even death from chronic diseases such as diabetes and epilepsy.
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Fair Future works every day to improve the living conditions of rural communities in eastern Indonesia.
One of the Foundation's tasks is to ensure equitable access to water in quantity and quality, in order to prevent diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and poliomyelitis. With, for children and vulnerable people, a high mortality rate., and maintain lives and livelihoods. This is to reduce environmental risks to health, by managing sanitation safely and with dignity. Still, the foundation seeks to involve women and men in the management of water resources, in sanitation by the implementation of safe hygiene practices in order to maximize the benefits for their communities.
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Whether it is to fight against famine, diseases linked to the lack of clean water, the lack of sanitation system, the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, respiratory diseases linked to air pollution, tuberculosis, or any other form of recurrent illness, Fair Future does what it can to best help populations in need.
Help us to provide us with medicines, medical equipment, logistics, my indispensable faith also to get us where no one ever goes. Help us to heal, to give a better life, to help us to save lives!
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Give for 1st emergency relief
Fair Future teams intervene to provide care, including in situations of social and natural disasters, how and why we adapt our activities to each. We have developed emergency actions that have been implemented in the fields of health, access to drinking water, food, and medical care, and have coordinated a multitude of actions since their different medico-social Base Camps. Our teams of professionals fight every day against epidemics and serious illnesses, due to lack of water, food, hygiene, and care for children or pregnant women and vulnerable people.
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Give for Rumah Kambera
Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia Foundation incorporate in all its choices and decisions taken in the context of its actions and field programs, the notions of risks for communities, what is good or bad for them, for people, children, and villages. And for years, we have for mission to develop, support, and create humanitarian programs and actions linked to education, training, and medical care. This is why Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia have created Rumah Kambera, our Base Camp in the Eastern part of Indonesia.
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Give for Rebuild MbinuDita program
After building a new school, bigger, stronger, with materials resistant to storms, bad weather, earthquakes, Fair Future and Kawan Baik, as part of the program, we named “Rebuild MbinuDita “, continue to provide basic things for the lives of thousands of people there.
The program “Rebuild MbinuDita” is to give access to clean water to all the inhabitants of the community, but also to medical care, to healthy food through the creation of organic gardens. These activities have no other objectives than to increase the quality of their life, to provide better health to people (especially children, vulnerable people, pregnant women), access to health and medical care, and for people to be able to increase their income.
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Give for The Truck of Life Program
In the most inaccessible territories, live thousands of people who do not have access to the most basic needs in order to ensure them a healthier life, or basic medical care, access to drinking water so as not to be ill, or a source of light for reading or studying for children.
The Truck of Life program allows us to provide medical care and take children or even a doctor or dentist to the nearest town. Truck Of Life allows us to bring equipment, food, and drinking water to wherever no one goes while ensuring the safety of our volunteers and specialized collaborators.
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Massive pest attacks that destroy all crops and starve the people
by Alex Wettstein | 25/05/2022 | Environment, Food Shortages, Natural disasters | 0 Comments
In East Sumba, for several days now, grasshoppers have been destroying all crops, vegetable gardens, soybeans, and corn. For three years, it has come back regularly. During high population years, they feed and severely damage almost all crops, trees, shrubs, and vegetable gardens. We are in contact with the most affected populations who tell us how the fruit of their work, their fields But also their garden, are totally destroyed in a few minutes. The impact is enormous for these poor families since their income is not enough to buy food. Rice in particular is expensive, therefore corn harvests are very important and vital for families. A new trade is in the process of being born: The sale of grasshoppers by the kilo; this is in order to eat and be nourished. The price is IDR. 5,000,000.- per kilo, i.e. less than 50 cents.
Water is when we don’t have it that we realise how important it is!
by Alex Wettstein | 05/04/2022 | Healthcare Access, Rebuild MbinuDita, Water Connections | 0 Comments
Water we do not realize how important it is when we have access to it like that, by opening a simple tap and sometimes forgetting to close it. Water is when we don’t have it that we realize how important it is, how vital it is for our everyday life. So for a moment, let’s try to imagine what our life could be like without water. And if we have access to it, that this water is not consumable! This is what the families experience here, the children of all these villages in which Fair Future works almost 24 hours a day. The health of people, the prevention of diseases, the reduction of infant mortality, offering a better quality of life, food every day, a shower every day and for everyone are just a few aspects that oblige us to work and develop. innovative and sustainable solutions, relating to access to water in quantity and quality for families in the poorest and rural regions.
The Water Crisis in Indonesia – Focus in Napu, Wunga, Sumba Timur
by Alex Wettstein | 25/03/2022 | Child Health, Food Shortages, Water shortages | 0 Comments
Drinking contaminated water can lead to serious health problems. Cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, scabies, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, hepatitis, malnutrition and poliomyelitis, significant metabolic fatigue causing disorders of all vital systems, to death.
In the long term, consumption of water loaded with heavy metals, pesticides, nitrates and other chemical components such as arsenic are likely to cause serious congenital malformations in newborns: Limb deformation, hydro-encephalitis and other physical or mental disabilities.
Tuberculosis incidence in Indonesia in relation to the COVID pandemic!
by Alex Wettstein | 27/01/2022 | Child Health, Healthcare Access, We are the Future | 1 Comment
The annual risk of TB infection in Southeast Asia is 1-2.5%, representing an upward trend for the region. In Indonesia, there are roughly 500,000 new cases of TB annually and 175,000 attributable deaths. Tuberculosis is the second major killer of adults after cardiovascular disease and the deadliest pathogen out of all communicable diseases. In global terms, there are one billion people infected with tuberculosis at any one time. Eight million new cases are reported annually with three million attributable deaths. However, despite these grim figures and without the influence of consistent treatment and immunization, its incidence is not as high as it was in the 20th century. The problem now is that with inadequate and inconsistent treatment regimes, a pool of persistent sputum-positive cases is being created!
The impact of COVID on mental health… And how we can help each other
by Alex Wettstein | 20/12/2021 | Pandemic Time | 1 Comment
Understanding COVID-19 will help us all to stay safe. Find out more about COVID, and how to protect yourself and your community. The mental health impact of COVID… and how we can help each other. COVID-19 Health Information. Understanding the difference: Malaria & COVID-19. What is ‘long COVID’? Latest COVID-19 Data: Sources: WHO, December 2021. 4.8 Million Deaths: Deaths from COVID-19 are continuing to rise. Let’s do what we can to help stop the spread. 5.4 Billion Vaccine doses given: Doses are not being shared equally around the world. #OnlyTogether can we end the pandemic.
Medical assistance – Malaria in Indonesia, what we are doing?
by Alex Wettstein | 21/10/2021 | Child Health, Healthcare Access, Truck of Life | 1 Comment
Risk is present throughout the country, excluding urban areas, and excluding the areas specified: J akarta, Surabaya, Denpasar (Bali), and other large cities are risk-free, including the beach resorts in southern Bali. Sporadic cases of malaria in travelers have been reported from rural areas of Java, Bali (Padangbai area), Bintan, and Lombok islands. The WHO data does not take into account the situation in eastern Indonesia, which is linked to the lack of existing data. Nevertheless, malaria in the regions of Flores, Sumba Timur and Kupang is important in rural villages.
Rumah Kambera, the last few months on the site!
by Alex Wettstein | 15/10/2021 | Rumah Kambera, Water Connections, We are the Future | 0 Comments
Rumah Kambera, some pictures taken during the last 6 weeks. A job 18 hours a day, 7 days a week in order to give the best of ourselves to all those who have great needs in the regions of eastern Indonesia. The foundation develops and implements actions in eastern Indonesia (NTT) and notably in East Sumba. To do so, we decided to coordinate our actions from what is now; “The Fair Future Base Camp” in the eastern regions of the country. In a village near Waingapu called Lambanapu. Rumah Kambera is its name. This -house- is a place of coordination of all our socio-medical, educational activities in favor of children, women, and communities in rural and peripheral regions where access to water, electricity, education, or healthcare is almost non-existent.
Dengue fever cases still on the rise despite the seasonal change
by Alex Wettstein | 20/09/2021 | Child Health, Healthcare Access, Truck of Life | 1 Comment
The COVID-19 epidemic has not slowed the onset of seasonal dengue fever across the country. The country has been battling dengue fever since early this year, at a time when state resources have been spent on curbing the COVID-19 outbreak. The similarities between dengue fever and COVID-19 symptoms have also complicated efforts to mitigate the annual spike in cases. The island of Java has contributed the highest average number of dengue hemorrhagic fever cases each year. In recent years, Bali and Borneo (Kalimantan) have had the highest incidence.
Assistance to people in case of malnutrition problems
by Alex Wettstein | 10/09/2021 | Child Health, Food Shortages, Healthcare Access | 0 Comments
Social consequences of malnutrition. Undernourished children have weaker immune systems and are thus more susceptible to infections and illnesses. Long-term insufficient nutrient intake and frequent infections can cause stunting, whose effects in terms of delayed motor and cognitive development are largely irreversible.
Medical Assistance for Children’s in pandemic time
by Alex Wettstein | 08/09/2021 | Child Health, Healthcare Access, Pandemic Time | 0 Comments
Fair Future notes that children are certainly the most affected by the indirect impact of the pandemic than by the viral infection itself. Indeed, we have noticed that the COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on the health of children, but through the increase in poverty, the loss of education and the closure of schools -here in Indonesia the closure of schools since March 2020-, food insecurity, violence as well as increased pressure on health systems and reduced access to personal health care services.
Common diseases we work on
Tuberculosis in Indonesia: A social disease affects the poorest communities, those living in difficult conditions. There are hundreds of thousands of new cases in Indonesia, such as HIV, which is not often mentioned here!
Medical care for children: Far too many children still die from easily preventable problems, especially in their first few days/weeks of life, as well as from diarrhea and pneumonia. Access to clean water and good sanitation solutions is one of the future goals to help them get better.
Dengue virus infection: DENV is a real major cause of acute febrile illness here. In the most affected regions, mortality is very high & affects the most vulnerable. Especially for those who do not have access to medical care.
Malaria and the vulnerable: Every year, malaria kills thousands of people in Indonesia, in all regions, even the richest. 70% of all deaths are children under five, and affect people and families who cannot access medical care.
Antimicrobial resistances. In here, this is a real health emergency, almost all drugs are available over the counter! This scourge turns simple wounds and easily treatable diseases into causes of death.
Air pollution and health: Plastic that burns, everywhere! Air pollution is responsible for almost 50% of mortality here. Dioxins, furans, mercury, and polychlorinated biphenyls are highly toxic!
Malnutrition and famine: Malnutrition causes serious illnesses where we are! The phenomenon, creating a vicious cycle of starvation & disease. This is a major problem in which we deal with!
@fairfuture believe health care should & can be avoided if families have access to a better life. Safe water, sanitations, a roof, good food. Notion of quality care for everyone is at the heart of our humanitarian objective & encompasses all of this.
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Other impressive images related to the grasshopper attacks, taken by @fairfuture & @kawanbaikindo teams from the field, in East Sumba. For more information, our teams are available to try to answer your questions and try to find together some solutions.
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The crisis is raging, the pests, grasshoppers are destructive, everything is destroyed in a few minutes. East Sumba people are fighting with their means with the help of @kawanbaikindo & @fairfuture. We have to do more, we can't let people without food.
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Grasshoppers (belalang) destroyed hectares of crops and starve villagers in East Sumba.
In few minutes the fields of corn and others are decimated and only the roots remain, the tears of those who gave everything for their crops.
🎥 Taken the 15.05.22 - @fairfuture
In East Sumba, for several days now, grasshoppers have been destroying all crops, vegetable gardens and cornfields. For three years, it has come back regularly. Enormous impact in terms of lost of food for these poor families.
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