The Truck of Life is an essential element of our on-site responses – It allows us to go where no one goes!
Without him, it would become very complicated, if not impossible, to move to the sites where we have actions and projects in progress. Indeed, no road, just broken paths where a regular vehicle, even a scooter, cannot pass.
The Truck of Life goes everywhere where hardly anyone goes to bring medical care, water, and food and seek the correct information for developing future programs and those in progress.
Our teams and specialists have tried to do without a suitable vehicle using scooters or renting trucks or off-road cars for many years. Since 2021, the foundation has decided to acquire its proper vehicle to increase its logistical resilience, the safety of its staff, and the responses to the problems experienced by the communities of these ultra-peripheral and very rural areas.
Go there, to their homes where no one ever goes.
Without saying that “the majority of children could be cared for at home by their families”, it is a fact that Fair Future seeks above all. Or idealize! Take care of yourself in your village, in your house.
This brings us directly to talking about medical centres here. Where we are active, care in a medical centre is non-existent, too expensive, or simply closed for lack of personnel, medical equipment, or drugs. Sometimes a medical centre does not or no longer have access to water, or the people working there are no longer paid by the region or state.
Without the Truck of Life, Fair Future wouldn’t be able to go anywhere that almost no one ever goes. He is an integral part of the team and we rely on him to keep us healthy too. He is a valuable ally and friend.
The problem that Fair Future faces very often is that certain regions and villages are sometimes impossible to access, hence the creation of the “Truck of Life” program, which allows us to go wherever nobody goes.
Providing care in the villages is therefore essential. This strategy can result in cure rates of over 90% and reduce referral to non-existent hospital care
The foundation’s other projects are access to water for villages, offer solutions for access to electricity and renewable energies, first aid kits per school and village, as well as educational and medical activities. and social. like “Photo Sumba Stories” which is coming to an end and which we will renew in favor of women in rural areas linked to an empowerment program dedicated to them.
We would also like to thank you for giving us the means to improve our security, our logistical resilience and to participate concretely in the implementation of the foundation’s programs in the most rural regions of this vast territory in which we are involved.
We thank you very much for your help and also for allowing us to go to places where hardly anyone can help.
The Truck of Life, that’s why it’s essential to us
This truck increases our logistical and human resilience, and we no longer have to search for hours for a means of transporting food and crucial goods for our activities on the sites;
This truck transport the suffering, especially children from rural villages who do not have access to medical care. In an emergency, we must regularly organize a visit to one of the few specialist doctors in the City, sometimes more than 5 hours away;
This truck reduces travel times because the sites in which we are involved are very far from each other, notably from our Base Camp located in Waingapu;
This truck makes us able to work and develop projects carried out in the territories of the East (East Sumba) by the Fair Future Foundation Indonesia more logically and efficiently;
This truck allows us to reach remote villages, using the only roads to get to them. Stony, muddy, steep paths flooded in the rainy season;
This truck avoids us having to use two wheels to move around these rural and poor areas, preventing us from transporting material and equipment;
This truck enables us to project ourselves into the development of projects in terms of logistics. Because owning our vehicle is the best option given our involvement for years in Indonesia and the foundation’s activities in East Sumba;
This truck allows us not to rent a private vehicle and driver. The sites that our staff must visit most of the time each day involve several hours of travel in the cars we rent;
This truck ensures the safety of our teams in the field because many of our employees have already fallen and been injured while using their scooters;
This truck saves us money on our medico-social teams’ internal travel budget. The latter so far is too essential, and therefore, we have to find a long-term solution;
This truck makes us feel more accessible, to gain independence, to be able to concentrate no longer on fundamental questions such as: “-How to get to the school site or the village …” but on concrete actions, namely: “-What should we bring there to finish the project?”
We need a second bigger truck to bring equipment to villages. Can you help us with this? It is essential for our activities on site.
For our base camp in NTT, we need a truck capable of transporting minimum loads of four tonnes into the heart of eastern Indonesia’s most rural and remote areas.
Fair Future needs you, again and again… But this time, it’s to acquire equipment that will allow us to do much more in favour of the communities living in the most inaccessible regions and where we work because it is where the most disadvantaged people are to be found: A second-hand truck for transporting heavy equipment as our drilling machine. So, thank you very much for your help and your kindness too.
This Truck Goes Where No One Goes
The Truck of Life is an essential element of our on-site responses – It allows us to go where no one goes!
Our Truck of Life provides relief, medical care, food, water, and equipment to the sites. It helps our teams move around safely. This is its primary mission. The truck of life allows us to go where no one goes!
The “Truck of Life” is a unique and innovative Fair Future initiative. This vehicle provides medical care to the ultra-rural areas of Sumba; it saves lives and allows you to go anywhere where almost no one ever goes. With the help of this truck, medical teams can travel to remote areas and provide health services to those who otherwise would not have access; it is also used to bring medical equipment to participants in the PMC program (Primary Medical Care Program). One of the key benefits of the Truck of Life is that it can reach people in remote areas who would not otherwise have access to healthcare services. The team on board the truck can provide a wide range of services, including primary medical check-ups, vaccinations, maternal and child health services, and treatment for common illnesses.
The Truck of Life is an innovative approach to addressing the healthcare challenges faced by people living in remote and rural areas of Indonesia. By bringing medical care and health education to these communities, the Fair Future Foundation is helping to improve the health and wellbeing of some of the most vulnerable people in the country. It represents the foundation of what it wants to be on a daily basis: Close to people in rural areas.
To ensure the “Truck of Life” successfully reaches those in need, working closely with the local community and building a solid relationship with them is essential. This is achieved by engaging with community actors and local health workers and conducting outreach programs in the villages where Fair Future and Kawan Baik work so hard to educate people on the importance of health care. In addition to providing health services, the Truck of Life also promotes health education and awareness in its communities. This is achieved through community outreach programs, where medical professionals engage with local people and provide them with information on staying healthy and preventing disease.
Another essential aspect to consider is the sustainability of the program. The “Truck of Life” is designed to operate efficiently and profitably over the long term, with a plan for maintenance, repairs and replenishment of medical supplies. The “Truck of Life” is a valuable initiative that significantly changes people’s lives in Sumba’s ultra-rural areas. With careful planning, collaboration with local communities and a commitment to sustainability, it has the potential to bring essential health services to those who need them most in the following years.
Our pressing needs
List of drugs we need to buy
To make it simple and short, we urgently need a lot of medicines (see the list attached in the post) and sanitary equipment such as antiseptics, dressings and other small miscellaneous equipment. Indeed, friends, all our stocks are almost finished because we have prescribed or used everything, which is a good thing. On the other hand and from tomorrow, we can no longer treat patients except for simple problems that do not require medical treatment.
We need anti-malaria drugs!
Fair Future issues an intense red alert linked to the case of malaria, which is reaching a critical level here in East Sumba, Indonesia. For weeks, thousands of malaria cases have been recorded here in East Sumba. This figure is nevertheless to be taken conditionally because, in many villages, people do not have an identity card or a family book or do not have access to medical care, so they are sick in silence.
