An earthquake, tsunami, flood or cyclone can have a devastating impact on entire communities like in April 2021 in NTT, Indonesia

Situations of social and natural disasters

Within a matter of minutes, natural disasters can affect the lives of tens of thousands of people. Hundreds or even thousands of people can be injured, and homes and livelihoods destroyed. Access to clean water, healthcare services and transport can also be disrupted. The impact of each disaster varies greatly and our response must adapt to each situation.

Fair Future and Kawan Baik Indonesia identify needs quickly because we are there, but accessing a disaster area can be difficult when the roads are cut off. The first responders are people already on site: Members of the community, our on-site teams made up of logistics, medical and documentalists, and the local authorities and aid organizations already present with whom we share time, premises, and know-how. .

We keep pre-packaged kits to deploy for rapid relief and life-saving assistance. With projects in over 20 regions, we often have aid workers close by in times of disaster. They can be reinforced with additional teams if a larger response is needed.  Truck of Life Program moves quickly, it brings the necessary vital equipment on site, because it can go almost anywhere.

Since April 2021, we have treated thousands of patients, medical care, treated hundreds of wounds, a few tons of drugs donated, hundreds of kilos of vitamins, and minerals, tens of tons of food, hundreds of thousands of litres of water, nearly 100 water tanks, including metal frames for the 5000-litre tanks, fittings, pipes so that families, villages, communities, and vulnerable people do not starve or of thirst.

All this continues today, we are entering the phase of reconstruction, repair, and planning of important works too. In particular, how to supply water to the tens of thousands of people who no longer have enough. How to ensure a healthy life when food is scarce? How can they also be treated when drugs are scarce?

Here is the list of what our on-site teams need to help and save lives:

Drugs acting on the digestive tract – Local anesthetics – Antidiarrheals – Antimalarials – Antibiotics – Antidotes against poisoning – Scabicides and pediculicides – Ophthalmic preparations – Disinfectants and antiseptics – Analgesics – Antipyretics – Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs – Chlorination / purification of water – Topical antibiotics – Oxytocics – Antiasthmatic drugs – Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals – Anti-allergics and antihistamines.

We do the best we can, we go where no one goes or can go, to provide medical care, to bring water and food in large quantities, to visit the thousands of people who are living without shelter, in the mud, with no income, with too little food and water. We talk, comfort, but we cannot promise ourselves the impossible.

Rebuild houses, drill wells in villages, and find ways to feed crops that are dying due to the lack of water linked to the rupture of the dam upstream.

We represent a great citizen, and social movement, and all the people who are here, very many who come voluntarily to help us, are for the most part the inhabitants of Sumba, all victims of this disaster which struck East Sumba on April 4, the day of Easter 2021.

To do this, we encourage you to help us as much as possible

Fair Future put a lot of human, material, and financial resources to overcome the emergency. Today we must count on all of you to ensure that this drama does not turn into something more dramatic.

The Fair Future Foundation team, who are working in the field, in what is the largest medical and social camp in East Sumba, our Rumah Kambera Base Camp.