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The Fair Future Foundation in East Indonesia is dedicated to eradicating social and medical injustices by ensuring access to healthcare, clean water, and education for all.
Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia team members apply waterproofing inside a 5,300-litre ferrocement reservoir in East Sumba. Local villagers work beside them and learn a practical technique that brings filtered rainwater closer to three rural households.
Watch the 11-minute Sumba Sepsis Study film, following more than 1,000 household interviews across remote East Sumba. It records the people, roads and care barriers behind the 2026 fieldwork, and why earlier recognition and referral matter before infection becomes an emergency.
Explore the Umalulu malaria study: 269 households, 460 interviews, gaps in prevention and access to care, interactive results and the original reports.
Across the study villages, firewood use was nearly universal, and many cooking areas were inside the home or immediately beside it. The Sumba Sepsis Study documents the exposure while being clear that ventilation and indoor particle levels were not measured.
Inside a rural East Sumba home, a Kawan Sehat health agent assesses and treats a wound. For patients far from hospital care, timely first-contact care, clear advice and early referral can reduce the risk of delayed infection and severe illness.
A Kawan Sehat health agent teaches young children how to reduce, sort and safely manage plastic waste in a rural East Sumba classroom. The school now has clean water from a new 5,300-litre reservoir, but still has no electricity. Prevention begins with words children can use at home.
Two donations totalling CHF 19,000 bring funding for the future Rumah Kambera Community Socio-Medical Centre to nearly 40% of the total needed. In Kawangu, East Sumba, construction is under way on a site planned for medical care, training and logistics serving remote village communities.
Nearly a year after installing solar power at SDN Mbajik, we return to Haray, East Sumba, to inspect the system and listen to its users. For 55 pupils and their teachers, electricity now means evening study, printed lessons and access to online resources.
A Rotary contribution of AUD 7,453.60 will fund five community medical outreach days in East Sumba. Each day enables our teams to treat at least 100 people, often around 120, with consultations, medicines and basic diagnostic tests in remote villages.
Explore the Sumba Sepsis Study 2026 through an interactive results page built from 1,001 household interviews and 162 healthcare-worker submissions. Compare prevention conditions, referral barriers and locality findings, with the full report available in three languages.
Explore the key findings of the Sumba Sepsis Study 2026: household prevention, access to care, healthcare-worker observations, treatment readiness, referral barriers and the actions these results now support.
Malnutrition in rural East Sumba affects children and vulnerable adults through food insecurity, monotonous diets, unsafe water, repeated infection and limited access to care.
