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 normal vehicle, even a scooter, cannot pass.

Truck of Life provides aid, relief, medical care, food, water, helps our teams, brings equipment. This is its main mission.

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.

What is the “Truck of life”, what is it for, where is it to go, and who is it for?

• This truck increases our logistical and human resilience, and we no longer have to search for hours for a means of transporting food and essential 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?”

This Truck Goes Where No One Goes