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About Fair Future | Swiss Medical Action in Remote Areas
Since 2006, Fair Future has been on a mission to create lasting change in the most vulnerable and remote regions of Southeast Asia. Through collective action, we’ve built hospitals, provided clean water, and delivered essential medical services, turning seismic challenges into transformative opportunities for thousands.
Field-Based Medical Care Before Emergencies
Health is built long before hospitals are reached
Every small donation enables access to medical care, clean water, and education in remote communities.
Health does not begin in hospitals. It begins with presence, prevention, and trust built day after day
Fair Future Foundation is a Swiss, state-approved humanitarian organisation founded in 2008 to address a simple yet brutal reality: millions of people still lack access to basic healthcare, clean water, and preventive measures. The foundation was born after the death of a five-year-old from malaria in a remote Indonesian village in Flores in 2006, a moment that made inaction impossible.
Since then, Fair Future has developed a field-based model centred on primary medical care, disease prevention, access to clean water, and community education. We work where systems do not reach, in ultra-rural environments where geography, poverty, and isolation multiply health risks. Our teams live and work alongside communities, day after day, without subcontracting or distance.
We believe that health is built before hospitals, before emergencies, and often before illness itself. This is why our approach combines medicine, education, infrastructure, and trust. Every action is designed to be measurable, verifiable, and useful on the ground. Fair Future is both a human foundation and a rigorous one. We act with care, evidence, and responsibility, because lives depend on it.
©Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation, updated the 20th of January 2026/aw
Children in East Sumba carry unsafe water home every day, risking their health and future.
From a Single Loss to a Lifelong Commitment
Fair Future Foundation was founded after a moment that forever changed its founder’s life. In a small village in Indonesia, a young child died of malaria in his arms. There was no hospital, no transport, no treatment. Only delay, isolation, and silence. That moment revealed a truth often hidden by statistics: people do not die only from disease, but from the absence of access.
Founded in Switzerland in 2008, Fair Future is a private, non-profit foundation under Swiss law with a clear humanitarian purpose. From the outset, the goal was not charity at a distance, but presence. Not temporary missions, but long-term engagement.
The foundation’s early vision was shaped by a physician and humanist, reinforcing a simple principle: medicine without humanity is incomplete, and humanity without rigour is ineffective. This duality remains central today. Fair Future exists because one life was lost too soon, and because many others should not be.
Fair Future’s volunteers are the heart of our mission, building water reservoirs, providing medical care, and transforming lives across Rural Areas.
Health Before Emergencies, Care Before Crisis
Fair Future’s mission is to reduce preventable suffering and death by acting as early as possible and as close to where people live as possible. In ultra-rural regions, waiting for emergencies often means waiting too long. Our work focuses on primary medical care, prevention, and the conditions that enable health.
We address infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, and waterborne illnesses, as well as chronic conditions, malnutrition, wounds, and neglected infections. Our interventions integrate medical consultations, community education, hygiene practices, vaccination awareness, and early symptom recognition.
This approach aligns with global public health principles while remaining grounded in local reality. We do not impose solutions; we adapt them. We translate medical knowledge into simple actions that families can understand and apply daily. For us, health is not a service delivered occasionally. It is a process built over time through trust, repetition, and presence.
A Fair Future volunteer interviews a resident in Umalulu, asking more than 80 questions about daily habits, health, and environment as part of the malaria baseline study.
Permanent Presence, No Subcontracting
Fair Future operates with its own teams on the ground year-round. We do not subcontract our missions. Our medical teams, local health agents, and coordinators are physically present in the communities we support. This continuity enables follow-up, evaluation, and real impact.
Local health agents are trained, equipped, and supervised to provide first-line care, identify risks early, and refer patients when needed. This model strengthens local capacity while ensuring quality of care. It also reduces delays, costs, and loss of follow-up.
Our work is coordinated with local health authorities, village leaders, and public health structures. This cooperation ensures legitimacy, sustainability, and integration into existing systems. Fieldwork is demanding, slow, and often invisible. But it is the only way to reach those who are otherwise left behind.
Rural health agents refresh skills in Waingapu to treat and educate isolated communities
The Most Effective Medical Act
In the environments where Fair Future works, prevention is not secondary to care. It is often the only effective form of care available. Clean water, hygiene, nutrition, education, and early awareness save more lives than late treatment.
We implement prevention through repeated, simple, practical actions: household visits, school sessions, visual tools, and community discussions. Topics include hand hygiene, safe water use, mosquito protection, nutrition, risks from tobacco and alcohol, and early warning signs of disease.
Prevention works only when it is understood, accepted, and practised by families themselves. Our role is to accompany, not to lecture. To explain, not to impose. This approach reduces the disease burden long before hospitals are involved and often prevents irreversible complications.
After a multi-day course on microscope maintenance and malaria slide-panel testing, 28 analysts received official certificates co-signed by Fair Future Foundation and Indonesian health authorities.
Measurable Impact, Verified Accountability
Fair Future Foundation is supervised by the Swiss authorities and audited annually. Transparency is not a promise; it is a requirement. More than 93 per cent of all funds received are allocated directly to field projects, a figure verified by independent audits.
The foundation operates without board-level salaries and with minimal administrative costs. Every expenditure is documented, tracked, and linked to concrete actions: medical supplies, water infrastructure, training, logistics, and field operations.
We believe donors and partners deserve clarity, not slogans. Impact must be measurable, and funds must be traceable. This rigour builds trust, and trust enables continuity. Our commitment is not only to those we support but also to those who make our work possible.
Kawan Sehat and Fair Future treat villagers in East Sumba’s most remote hamlets
Long-Term Engagement in a Changing World
Looking forward does not mean moving on. It means staying. In the regions where we work, health challenges do not disappear with a single project or a short intervention. Climate change, isolation, poverty, and fragile infrastructure continue to shape daily life year after year. Our responsibility is to remain present when attention fades.
Fair Future does not plan its future around growth for the sake of visibility. We plan it around continuity for impact. Our priorities are strengthening what already works, improving training, listening to communities, and adjusting our tools based on real field experience. Progress is often quiet. It happens through trust built slowly, through repeated visits, and through relationships that last.
We are committed to long-term engagement because health cannot be rushed. People do not need promises. They need consistency. Our work is to walk alongside communities over time, adapting as realities change, and ensuring that care, prevention, and dignity remain accessible, even far from systems and headlines.
Integrated Community Health Actions in the Field
Key facts about Fair Future
- Fair Future is a Swiss state-supervised foundation operating under strict governance, with audited accounts and verified field impact.
- Since 2008, the foundation has maintained uninterrupted field presence, allowing long-term follow-up rather than short-term interventions.
- Decisions are driven by medical need and field reality, not visibility, ensuring consistency, neutrality, and ethical care delivery.
Primary Medical Care
Kawan Sehat health agents walk hours to treat fever, malaria, injuries and dehydration in villages without clinics, where climate shocks hit first.
Water Connections
Ferro cement reservoirs and village water networks secure clean litres during longer droughts and after floods, cutting diarrhoea and kidney problems.
Kawan Against Malaria
Prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of malaria in areas where changing rains and temperatures create new mosquito patterns and higher risks.
Solar lights for families
Solar lamps for homes and schools reduce injuries at night, improve study conditions and cut toxic fumes when electricity is absent or unreliable.
