In the scattered hills of East Sumba, 5,300-litre ferrocement tanks collect each drop of rain. Families help build and maintain them. Children drink safely, and women no longer have to carry 20-kilo jerrycans for hours. Water near the house is a primary source of health care.
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Fair Future Foundation, a Swiss-based non-profit, is an innovative force in global healthcare and social aid.
Know your status, take an HIV test now – HIV prevention poster used by Kawan Sehat health agents.
We work in some of the most remote regions of Southeast Asia, where there are no doctors, no electricity, and often no clean water. For over sixteen years, Fair Future has been on the ground, creating long-term medical and social solutions with the communities who live here.
Through the Primary Medical Care programme, we treat wounds, infections, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and chronic illnesses directly in remote villages. With access to clean water, safe reservoirs, and nutritional support, communities can finally prevent disease rather than suffer from it.
Our approach is simple: stay close, listen, understand, and act with science and solidarity. Every action we take aims to strengthen families, improve health, and reduce preventable deaths.
Your support sustains this work. It transforms long days under the sun, muddy roads, and emergency care into measurable change for those who have nowhere else to turn. Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation – Updated in November 2025
Help deliver medical care where no doctors work
Every contribution funds direct care in remote villages. Medicines, wound treatment, diagnostic tests, clean water systems, and solar-powered cold chains to protect vaccines and enable care at night.
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Stories from the Field
Real moments from our medical and humanitarian missions in ultra-rural Indonesia. Nothing arranged — just life, as we live it with them.
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Nov. 2025 | The Day Night Changed
The film The Day Night Changed is now online. It shows how Mbajik School in East Sumba received electricity for the first time after five days of hard work with Smart Energy Tech and the villagers. The final scene shows the first cinema night ever held in Haray.
View the film on YouTube
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Matawai, The Shades Of Water
Produced by Fair Future, this 15-minute documentary examines the daily struggle for access to water in the ultra-rural eastern Sumba region. Matawai reveals how the lack of clean water affects women and children, while also highlighting the vital impact of Fair Future's Water Connections programme.
Watch Matawai on YouTubeHow your donations are used?
Fair Future directs 93% of every donated franc to field projects, including medical care, clean water systems, and malaria prevention. Full financial reports are published and audited annually
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WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW
Field stories of wounds treated, clean water built, and families protected
These articles are not reports — they are moments from the field. They show how we care for wound infections, bring clean water to villages, train health agents, and travel days to reach isolated families. This is the reality of our medical work.
Disease Prevention in Rural Health
In ultra-rural regions, disease prevention is often the only medical barrier between families and severe illness. Education, hygiene and vaccination awareness reduce infections long before emergency care is needed, protecting communities where access to healthcare remains limited.
Kawan Sehat medical evaluation in remote East Sumba
A clinical assessment of how primary healthcare quality is maintained in remote villages of East Sumba. This article documents a structured medical evaluation of a community health agent, highlighting training, supervision, and data accuracy as key elements of safe rural healthcare.
No Access to Healthcare in Rural Areas | Clinical Reality
In ultra-rural regions, people do not die from rare diseases, but from delays and absence of care. Primary Medical Care restores continuity where systems stop, reducing preventable illness through presence rather than technology.
Better year ahead from East Indonesia with Fair Future
As 2025 comes to an end in East Indonesia, Fair Future teams share a better year ahead East Indonesia message rooted in presence, care, and responsibility. After 16 years on the ground, our commitment remains focused on health access prevention and dignity where needs are greatest.
Merry Christmas 2025 from East Indonesia with Fair Future
Tonight is Christmas Eve in East Indonesia. While families gather elsewhere, Fair Future teams share a message of presence, gratitude, and community from the field, where Christmas has no snow but the same human warmth.
Skin infection prevention in rural Indonesia
Skin infections are not cosmetic. In ultra rural areas, small cuts, insect bites, or scratched skin can quickly become dangerous infections. Heat, dirty water, and delayed care increase the risk. Early cleaning and simple prevention save lives every day in the field.
Extreme heat health risks in ultra-rural care
Extreme heat is not just weather in ultra-rural communities. It is a medical risk that worsens dehydration, malnutrition, and infections. From the field, we see how simple actions and early recognition of heat illness save lives every day.
Kawan Sehat Medical App – Offline care in rural regions
In ultra rural Indonesia, access to medical care depends on distance, roads, and signal. The Kawan Sehat Medical App was created to change that reality by enabling trained community health agents to deliver structured primary medical care without internet access, while generating reliable medical data for long term action.
OUR 2025 IMPACT IN REMOTE VILLAGES
Medical consultations delivered in ultra-rural villages where no doctor, no clinic, and no alternative care exists.
Litres of safe water storage built or funded, helping families drink, cook, and wash without preventable disease.
People reached through daily health education on hygiene, malaria prevention, clean water, and basic nutrition.
Children who can now study, read, and move safely after dark thanks to clean, reliable solar light at home and school.
Annual Report 2024 – 17th Years of Concrete Action
Read Fair Future’s 2024 Annual Report, our concrete record of fieldwork in East Sumba: primary healthcare, clean water access, nutrition, and education. The 2025 Annual Report is currently being written and will be published within Q1 2026 (before March). For now, this link opens the full 2024 report in French and English.
→ Open the 2024 Annual Report
Essential Pages on Rural Health
Climate Change and Health
Climate change is not an abstract environmental issue. In ultra-rural communities, it directly worsens disease, water scarcity, malnutrition, and access to care. This page explains how climate impacts health long before emergencies appear.
Life Without Healthcare
In large parts of rural Indonesia, healthcare simply does not exist. No doctors, no clinics, no ambulances. This page explains what that absence means in real life, for children, families, and entire communities left alone with preventable diseases.
Disease Prevention Without Care
Malaria, infections, waterborne diseases. In ultra-rural areas, prevention is often the only medicine available. This page shows how simple, evidence-based actions can stop disease before it becomes fatal.
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Real moments from our medical, water, and community missions in ultra-rural Indonesia. Nothing staged — just the daily reality of our work on the ground.
Our core programmes in ultra rural Indonesia
We work in the extreme east of Indonesia, in ultra rural villages with no doctors, no electricity, and often no clean water. These programmes turn medical knowledge, community effort, and solidarity into concrete solutions for families who live far from any form of care.
Primary Medical Care
Trained Kawan Sehat health agents provide first line medical care in villages without doctors. With equipped medical backpacks and remote supervision, they treat wounds, infections, fevers, malaria, and chronic illness for 700 to 1 000 patients every month. This programme prevents simple problems from becoming emergencies.
Water Connections
We drill wells, build ferrocement reservoirs, and install safe water points so families can drink, cook, wash, and grow food without risking disease. Clean water reduces diarrhoea, malnutrition, and many infections we see daily in our clinics. Every tank and every tap is a public health intervention.
Kawan Against Malaria
In malaria endemic areas we combine prevention, rapid tests, treatment, and education. Long lasting insecticidal nets, indoor spraying, field studies, and posters help reduce fevers, anaemia, and deaths, especially among children and pregnant women. This programme links community action with rigorous medical follow up.
