Some pictures of the 35’000 people we help annualy

The foundation provides free medical care and helps people in need access to this fundamental right, which is access to medical care and good health. Among them are newborns, many young children, many teenagers, young adults, pregnant women, ancient people, some of whom can no longer walk and are locked in unhygienic places.

As a wealthy nation, we have both the capacity and the responsibility to support communities around the world so that they too can benefit from the gains of development.

In 2019, we created the Fair Future Indonesia, which is the official representation of the Swiss Foundation on Indonesian territory. This new organization allows us to develop and focus our activities in the poorest regions of Indonesia and even Southeast Asia.

Nusa Tenggara Timur, Sumba and these ultra peripheral and very rural lands. Where nearly 450,000 people live without water or electricity, it is now our main place of work. These medical activities are organized from our base camp in Lambanapu (Sumba East).

The issue of access to medical care in rural and ultra-peripheral regions

The rural communities of this ultra-peripheral region do not have access to medical care, even the most basic. Indeed, the distance separating the villages from the nearest health center is very large. The roads are difficult, they are mainly dirt or pebble roads on which only an all terrain vehicle can access.

In addition, these health/medical centers are only open very occasionally; like one day for children and one day for adults, and this only per week (when they open). These centers are not equipped with medical equipment, no drugs, and medical personnel are often absent. These same health centers, for the most part, do not have access to water either.

Health care is also expensive and people in these rural communities cannot afford anything. As a result, sick people do not go to a doctor and often the consequences are disastrous in terms of infant mortality.

Do you know that the foundation has been treating over 5’000 patients per year since 2011?

• 9.5 million children under five are malnourished and don’t have any access to Health Care;
• More than 3 million (or 12%) of children under five years of age in Indonesia suffer from wasting;
• Almost two out of every three children under two years of age, (or 57%), in rural areas are anaemic;
• Only 42% of children aged less than six months are exclusively breastfed, and only 36% of children consume appropriate complementary food.
• 90% of people don’t have health insurance. Everywhere in Indonesia, the majority of people have no access to medical care.

Indonesia’s health system is failing to provide even the most basic care to vast swathes of the population. Many who can not afford doctor’s fees often receive no treatment at all, while the wealthy fly abroad for a check-up. The system is plagued by under-funding, decentralisation, lack of qualified staff, rising medical costs, and outdated medical equipment.

Since the Foundation keeps medical and social statistics, we see that the numbers are increasing every year.

From a few thousand to tens of thousands of patients now! And linked to the health and economic crisis due to COVID-19, this continues to increase.

All these data are in any case submitted to local health authorities for statistical purposes and above all to witness what is happening. This confidential information concerns the types of patients we receive: Either the type of illnesses, social origins, ages, treatments administered, examinations carried out by our medical teams.

The foundation also aims to improve the daily life of the local community in suffering, whether they are affected by a situation of social vulnerability, emotional or medical, or suffering from a disability. We just help people, we find the best solutions for them using what we do since 2010!

We are working on the development of sustainable actions, aimed at the concept of self-sufficiency.

We welcome and generally take care of comforting hundreds of patients at each medical event. We bring comfort, empathy, and share moments to try to understand the issues of these people who often have nothing at all. Among them are newborns, many young children, many teenagers, young adults, pregnant women, ancient people, some of whom can no longer walk and are locked in unhygienic places.

In Indonesia, a huge number of poor people with jobs, however, remain vulnerable to a return to total destitution! Four (4) Indonesians are richer than one hundred (100) million of the poorest

Everyone we meet every day, suffer from diseases and problems mainly related to fatigue, malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies, infections, skin diseases, untreated diabetes, infected wounds, many young children suffer respiratory infections, asthma, chronic bronchitis, vitamin deficiency. The list is very long, but every day we face new health problems.

The main goal, the vision of the foundation is to treat people, to offer free medical care. As a whole, without any difference. Access to medical care in this huge country of 270 million people (4th world population) is not a right, but a privilege. We also ensure that the conditions of medical care correspond in all respects to those expected by the local population. Meant by that, we provide the bulk, not the superfluous that could be misunderstood by the local authorities.

Access to health care and medical care should not be just a matter of chance, but a right to which everyone should be equal.

Thank you very much for your concrete help and your love, to offer a bright future to many people and their families, communities also!

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