A health emergency | Laindatang is a village without clean water, toilets, or sanitary facilities. Malaria, Dengue, Cholera, and Hepatitis A are present because of the hygienic conditions. It is a place of extreme poverty, so we categorize this action as RED. We must get to work this month to ensure better living conditions for these families.
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We devote ourselves every day to providing people and children with concrete solutions to improve their social, educational, and medical living conditions, through innovative and inspiring projects.
Do you feel concerned by the work of the Foundation?
Why not be ready to invest yourself personally in one of the causes that concern us? Want to do what you can to make a difference? It can be easy to take action and have an impact!
Whether on a budget or looking for other ways to help, here are some ways to support your favourite cause and make a lasting impact with all the good friends at Fair Future or with Kawan Baik Indonesia, our little sister in the country!
Fair Future and Kawan Baik, as part of its socio-medical activity in eastern Indonesia, take care of individuals, families, and communities. This is to provide them with solutions for a better quality of life. This is how you can help us!
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Donate unwanted items to our organisation
We accept donations of items such as clothing, furniture, books, toys, appliances, etc. Consider giving us slightly used items or items that are of no use to you instead of throwing them away: books, clothes for the children, medical equipment, of course. Fair Future needs so much!
Become a Member is also possible
Are you a school or a teacher? Are you active in the field of education and want to offer unique content related to people’s lives, traditions and customs?
To teach something else? Share the life of a class of children in rural Indonesia! Do you or your students have an idea for a medical-social assistance program that will undoubtedly improve their lives? And this idea is indeed a good one. Do you dream of it being implemented on behalf of all of you? Develop it with us in the field and develop a joint mutual aid action between you and them here. Click here to became a Fair Future Member;
Donate your skills and donate your time
Fair Future can only function with generous volunteers who give their time. Volunteering your skills and time allows you to directly contribute to the Foundation’s efforts. In the field, in the administrative and educational area… Your volunteering will also give you a natural feeling of accomplishment. It will give you the impression of having made a difference with us! Become a volunteer; apply here!
These are just a few examples of what we can do to help Fair Future in its work.
What is magical is that we are directly in the field. From its founder Alex, its secretary Elisa, and all present and active volunteers, we are all equal social workers, vibrating with every success, weeping with every failure, and looking forward to the day ahead.
We thank you all very much for your help, your kindness, and your generosity.
Our latest news
What do the sanitary facilities we build look like?
This new "Picture of the Day" shows you an example of construction that we carry out in the poorest villages of Indonesia and Asia. Here the families before did not have access to clean water and toilets. Fair Future and Kawan Baik Foundations have been changing this for years, and noticeable changes are being seen.
Access to drinking water and toilets is a fundamental human right. Still, unfortunately, in the regions where we are, nearly 90% of families in ultra-rural areas do not have access to these necessities. Here are some steps that can be taken to provide access to clean water and toilets in the regions that do not have access:
The first step is to identify the areas most needing these facilities. Fair Future and Kawan Baik proceed through research, surveys, and working with our local partners and authorities. Once regions that do not have access to clean water and toilets have been identified, we develop plans to provide these services. This takes into account the specific needs of each community. To do this, we have several ways to provide access to clean water, such as drilling deep wells, installing water filtration systems and collecting rainwater. The method used will depend on the specific needs of the community.
Access to toilets is also essential to reduce the rate of infectious diseases such as Cholera, Dengue, hepatitis A, and Malaria. In this photo, two sanitary facilities have been built using the Ferro-Cement method, with a tank for collecting dirty water and clean water for watering.
Fair Future also considers it essential to educate the community on the importance of hygiene and sanitation practices to prevent the spread of disease. We do this through the #waterconnections and #kawansehat and #primarymedicalcare programs.
One of our missions is also to monitor and maintain these new facilities. This requires the training of local community members who will carry out essential maintenance and repairs.
Inventing toys when you don’t have any
This "Picture of the Day" shows two children from Tanah Mbanas, Sumba Tengah, who have created a kitchen with waste from the plastic they found around their houses made of earth and bamboo. They are playing cooking. Here, families do not have access to water and even less to clean water.
Here in Sumba, in these ultra-rural villages, it is not uncommon for children of all ages to invent toys and games from natural materials or objects from waste or old. In these areas, children rely on their creativity and ingenuity to find new forms of play and have fun.
For example, children can make their toys from natural materials such as sticks, pebbles and leaves. They can use these materials to create games like building forts or playing "tag" with modified rules. Likewise, old items like cans, tires, or ropes can be repurposed to create new toys, like a toy truck, makeshift soccer ball, or swing.
These types of imaginative play experiences are very beneficial for the development of children. They encourage creativity, problem-solving and social interaction as children work together to develop new ideas and adapt the rules of their games. Additionally, playing in nature can provide opportunities for physical activity and exploration, positively affecting physical and mental health.
Malnutrition is taking its toll here where we are
This "Picture of the Day" shows children in East Sumba, where we are at work, as I post this Photo of the Day. Fair Future and Kawan Baik teams, as part of the #kawansehat #primarymedicalcare and #waterconnections projects, cook for children in the most rural and poor areas. In this image, some are drinking strawberry milk for the first time. They had never seen a straw before, and I remember all the kids asking us how to drink that kind of drink. We had to show them and help them plant the straw in the milk carton.
Malnutrition is an endemic problem here in all the rural villages of East Sumba. It is also the region with the highest rate of malnourished children in Indonesia. Here, clean water is absent from the houses, and the consumption of unclean water generates health problems and serious illnesses. And to cook, drink, and wash, you need water. And in order not to get sick, you also need water. Food production cannot occur without water, and families do not have enough income to buy food, rice and vegetables. On average, they live with less than two litres of water per person per day for everything: cooking, eating, drinking, drinking, bathing, going to the toilet and doing laundry. Have you ever tried?
Most children here are underweight and malnourished because they cannot eat enough. Meal frequency is one meal per day. Young children may be able to eat twice if all goes well. The menu will consist of rice and corn because more than rice alone is needed. In East Sumba, a kilo of rice costs three times more than in Java or Bali. Only a little salt and peppers accompany the meal to give flavour and taste.
Our History
We are a Swiss foundation working internationally! Founded in 2008, we have known -through hundreds of actions and projects- to achieve incredible things! Hospitals, schools, health centres, the truck of life, and drilling deep wells to access clean water.
More than 300,000 people have benefited from Fair Future health and medical care support.
Since 2018, we have worked exclusively in rural and outermost regions, particularly in the far east of Indonesia.
We are also a movement of “good friends” who, along with our partners, use practical and innovative tactics to implement care, development, education, and humanitarian aid programs during various disasters.
Through innovative and inspiring projects, we devote ourselves daily to providing people and children with concrete solutions to improve their social, educational, and medical living conditions.
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Together we can make a difference even more!
The work of Fair Future in a few images
Active in emergency aid, the Swiss Fair Future provides rapid, appropriate, and effective responses to populations affected by natural disasters, epidemics/pandemics, shortages, or socio-economic crises.
Together with our partners, we use a combination of practical and innovative tactics to implement development programs, public education campaigns, advocacy campaigns, and humanitarian assistance in disasters and conflicts.
About this Gallery: Fair Future Foundation and all the collaborators who make it live offer medical, social, educational, logistical, and infrastructural assistance to people affected by shortages, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from health care. With Kawan Baik Indonesia, we operate in the most rural and ultra-peripheral areas of Indonesia. Fair Future in the field, these are teams made up of health professionals – all local -and logistics and administrative staff, also recruited locally. Medical ethics and impartiality, independence, and neutrality guide our actions. We do not employ foreigners, empower local resources, and implement measures on the ground without intermediaries. This is what makes Fair Future and Kawan Baik unique. – Thank you for your time and interest.
