Some images of our medical-social camp in Sumba Timur, NTT, Indonesia. Rumah Kambera
The Fair Future and Kawan Baik Medico-Social Base Camp in Eastern Indonesia.
At Rumah Kambera, Fair Future, Kawan Baik and all our friends here focus on absolute emergencies, such as access to primary and emergency medical care, the creation of sanitation solutions and access to clean water -the #waterconnections projects-, and access to water sources. renewable energy, healthy food, and disaster relief. But also so that more children can access school and quality education.
Fair Future integrates, across its actions and field programs, the principles of community risks and of what is good or bad for communities, people, children, and villages.
A house for us, a house for them. The Foundation develops and implements actions in eastern Indonesia (NTT) and East Sumba. To do so, we decided to coordinate our efforts from the site now known as “Rumah Kambera Base Camp” in the country’s eastern regions. In a village near Waingapu called Lambanapu.
A place where everyone is welcome to lend a hand, offer a help project, or collaborate with the FFoFoundation’s volunteersand collaborators as part of their activities and programs. In addition, it is a place for exchanges, conferences, training, and workshops; a public organic garden; and an area for experimentation on what works and what does not.
Rumah Kambera is a place to coordinate all our socio-medical and educational activities in favour of children, women, and communities in rural and peripheral regions where access to water, electricity, education or health care is almost non-existent.
This highly symbolic place in East Sumba is Rumah Kambera, which operates at full capacity, almost 24 hours a day. Successive collaborators are all members of our two foundations, but three people are now assigned full-time. Kawan Ino, Kwan Primus, and Kawan Elthon are from Sumba and oversee our base camp. But they are never alone, as other teams take turns on missions that often lasttwo to three months on site.
The activities implemented there are extraordinary, unique, innovative, and original. There is in this simple place a dynamic that one rarely sees elsewhere. As with a natural disaster, we can find ourselves there by the tens, even more than a hundred.
Those who make our base camp possible are the teams from Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia, volunteers, doctors, nurses, architects, builders, logisticians, water access specialists, and deep-drilling specialists. It’s a magical place, and we can’t stop thanking them from the bottom of our hearts.
Rumah Kambera – Socio-Medical base camp, the 19.08.2022
In Short | A base that made continuity possible
Before programs expanded, before trucks and large-scale projects, Rumah Kambera made continuity possible. A place to store medicines, train health agents, welcome patients and coordinate action. It quietly became the backbone of everything that followed in East Sumba.
Rumah Kambera medical base in rural Indonesia
Rumah Kambera medico social base
A permanent base for medical action
Rumah Kambera is not a building. It is a functioning system. A place designed to solve problems that do not appear on maps or spreadsheets. In East Sumba, where distance, isolation and a lack of infrastructure shape daily life, this base enables medical and social action to remain continuous, coordinated and effective.
Here, medicines are stored, checked, and prepared before being dispatched to remote villages. Water is tested, not guessed. Solar lamps are inspected individually before being distributed to children without access to electricity. Sanitation systems are built, tested, and improved on-site. Vehicles are loaded, repaired, and returned to service. Teams train, debrief, think and adjust.
Rumah Kambera is where Primary Medical Care becomes possible without interruption, where Water Connections are planned and supplied. Where Kawan Against Malaria actions are coordinated, emergencies are addressed quickly because delays cost lives. It is also where teams live, rest briefly and prepare for the next departure.
Fully powered by solar energy and autonomous in water, the base functions independently, by necessity. It quietly supports health, prevention and survival efforts for nearly one million people across the region.
Every image in this gallery shows the same thing. A place built to last, because leaving is not an option.
Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation medico-social camp in East Sumba – Rumah Kambera, Lambanapu – the 23rd of May 2023
List of Related Organisations with Hyperlinks
- World Health Organisation: Provides global guidance on the delivery of primary healthcare in low-resource and rural settings
- Médecins Sans Frontières: Delivers medical care in conflict zones and underserved communities worldwide
- UNICEF: Supports child health, nutrition and access to basic services in vulnerable regions
- International Committee of the Red Cross: Provides medical assistance and humanitarian protection in fragile contexts
- Save the Children: Focuses on child survival, health and protection in underserved areas
- Rotary International: Supports humanitarian, health and water projects through global partnerships
