From March to July 2025, our team visited 269 households in Umalulu. These photos show how local cadres conducted surveys, distributed nets, and documented daily conditions to build the region’s first malaria baseline.

Quick News is our field notebook in public.

Quick News is our way to communicate with you in real time. Very brief texts, one photo, and a few lines to share what is happening today where we work. A child treated for pneumonia, a village that finally has access to clean water, a malaria test that turns positive, a SolarBuddy lamp that lights a house for the first time. Each post is limited to around 500 characters, so we focus on the essential facts.

These updates are written by those who are on the ground. In the back of the Truck of Life, at a Kawan Sehat health post, beside a new reservoir, sometimes late at night when the last patient has left. No big production, no staging. Just what we see, what we do, what it costs in energy and money, and what is still needed so people can eat, drink clean water, and receive basic care.

Quick News also serves as a tool for accountability. Here you can see where your support goes, which programmes are active, how many patients are treated, which villages receive medical care, safe water, or prevention tools. Scroll, read, share. These are fragments of daily life in East Indonesia, small pieces of reality that, together, demonstrate the scale of the work and the strength of the communities we stand with.

Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation – Updated in November 2025