Children in East Sumba carry unsafe water home every day, risking their health and future.

Why do We Do This?

Because no one should die of malaria, drink dirty water, or be forgotten.
There’s always a moment that changes everything. For us, it happened nearly twenty years ago.

Alex said: “-A five-year-old child died in my arms in a remote Indonesian village in 2006. He had malaria. So did almost everyone else. There were no doctors. No treatment. Just suffering. And death. That moment made one thing clear: we cannot look away. From that day on, we decided to act.”

Fair Future Foundation was born not from a strategy, but from heartbreak — and the unshakable belief that injustice, no matter how far away, is still injustice.

We do this because people walk all night to find dirty water. Many return empty-handed. Others return with illness: typhoid, dysentery, infections, and kidney failure — consequences of neglect, not fate. All preventable. All unacceptable.

We do this because it’s the 21st century, yet millions are still abandoned, without electricity, healthcare, toilets, clean water, education, or a future. Entire communities survive in silence, outside the radar of systems that should protect them.

And in today’s world, that silence is growing.

We live in a time of disconnection. Of shrinking empathy. In rich and poor countries alike, people feel increasingly alone, lost in collapsing economies, in systems that no longer support them. Many suffer in silence. They don’t know where to turn. And even if they did, there’s often no one there to answer.

Governments have failed them, and institutions ignore them. Only independent movements, people like us, step in, not out of pity but because we refuse to let dignity die.

We do this because sharing is not a weakness, solidarity is not outdated, and taking care of others, even strangers, is still the most potent human act.

Fair Future acts not because we must, but because we believe that every life matters — equally, fully, wherever it begins.

Those we serve are not statistics. They are people, with names, dreams, strength, and an extraordinary will to live—even in the harshest places. They are rich in values the modern world has forgotten: resilience, humility, and quiet grace.

We are not here to make noise. We are here to build. Toilets. Reservoirs. Clinics. Light. Trust. And futures.

Because a better world is not imagined, it is built. Together.

Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation – Published in May 2025