Following nine months of failed drilling, we've constructed a 114 m³ reservoir in Laindatang, which is entirely powered by rainwater. Almost 300 villagers, predominantly children, now have access to clean water. The project kicked off in June and is now complete. Together, we can bring an end to the water crisis.

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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.

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Seeking 30 Android Phones to Equip Rural Kawan Sehat Health Workers

13.11.2025 - We urgently seek a manufacturer willing to donate 30 simple Android phones for our Kawan Sehat health workers. These devices are vital for using our medical app and caring for 1,000 patients monthly. Contact us if you can help.

One School Electrified—Over 100 Still Waiting for Light

07.11.2025 - Electrifying one school may seem small, yet it changes everything. In East Sumba, over 100 schools and villages still live without power. Together, we can bring light, opportunity, and hope to many more.

Solar Electrification Brings Power to SDN Mbajik School in East Sumba

07.11.2025 - Fair Future has powered SDN Mbajik School with solar energy—16 panels, a 14kW battery, and a hybrid inverter now supply electricity to 80 students and teachers. A first step toward sustainable energy and better education.

Fair Future Donates CHF 19,248.96 to Fund 2025/26 Primary Medical Care

07.10.2025 - Fair Future has donated CHF 19,248.96 (IDR 400M) to support the 2025/26 Primary Medical Care program. This vital funding ensures continued medical care, medicines, and support for remote Indonesian communities.

Connecting the Roof to Laindatang’s 115m³ Reservoir for First Rain

01.10.2025 - Today, we connect the roof to the 115m³ reservoir in Laindatang. After two months of drying, the structure is ready. Soon, the next rain will begin filling it. A big step toward sustainable clean water for the village.

Fair Future Allocates CHF 1,500 for Essential Medicines

30.09.2025 - We allocated nearly CHF 1,500 to purchase essential medicines, covering about two months of needs. These supplies are crucial for treating patients in remote communities with limited access to healthcare.

Final Report on the Construction of Eight Ferrocement Tanks in Hambarita

13.09.2025 - The final report on Hambarita’s eight ferrocement reservoirs is now online. These 4,400–5,300L tanks provide vital clean water for 151 residents. Read the full document and see how this project strengthens resilience

Explore Fair Future’s Interactive Map of East Sumba Projects

05.09.25 — Discover our detailed East Sumba map, showing schools, villages, and communities without electricity or clean water. Learn where Fair Future works daily to bring healthcare, water, and light to remote populations.

2024 Accounts Approved: 16 Years of Transparency and Excellence

19.05.25 - Our 2024 accounts are officially approved by our certified Swiss auditor, without remarks, for the 16th year. Please read the full audit report on our documentation page. Accountability is our commitment.

Breaking Menstrual Taboos: Dignity and Health for Every Girl

13.05.25 - Menstruation is not shameful—it’s natural. Yet in ultra-rural Indonesia, girls lack access to hygiene, education, and support. Fair Future works to restore dignity and health. Please read our full article to understand and act.

Alex

About this author: Alex Wettstein - Founder, President, and Director of Socio-Medical Activities at Fair Future Foundation - Alex Wettstein is the key figure leading the Fair Future Foundation, a Swiss medical nonprofit transforming lives in the remote areas of Southeast Asia. Growing up in Switzerland after being born in France, Alex was inspired to pursue humanitarian work by his father, Axel Kahn—a renowned physician and geneticist. This blend of compassion and scientific influence fueled Alex's dedication to enhancing people's well-being. More than 15 years ago, Alex established the Fair Future Foundation with a focused mission to tackle significant gaps in healthcare, education, and access to clean water in underserved communities. For over twenty years, he has lived and worked in Indonesia, deeply engaging with the challenges faced by these remote areas. His leadership goes beyond strategic planning; it involves active participation in medical and social operations to ensure each initiative is both effective and responsive. Under Alex's leadership, the foundation has provided clean water to tens of thousands of people, constructed schools and healthcare facilities, and educated local communities in sustainable living practices. His innovative approach features the integration of solar power and advanced technologies such as solar water pumps, replacing polluting diesel generators used in water drilling projects. Alex has been a leading advocate in combating infectious diseases like malaria, dengue fever, tuberculosis, and those related to inadequate sanitation. He focuses on prevention and sustainable solutions that enable communities to become self-reliant and resilient. As a distinguished figure in humanitarian work, Alex was recently honored with the Paul Harris Fellow Recognition by Rotary International for his significant contributions. Furthermore, Fair Future's documentary "Matawai: Shades of Water" debuted in the remote village of Mbinudita, highlighting the pressing water crises faced by these communities and bringing global awareness to their challenges. Alex's life is characterized by action, innovation, and empathy. Through his relentless work with the Fair Future Foundation, he has transformed countless lives and built a legacy of compassion and lasting change. His vision inspires those around him, demonstrating that meaningful impact starts with unwavering dedication and a desire to improve the world.

A child looks at the water flowing from a pipe

by Alex | Dec 2, 2022 | Picture of the day

This photograph was taken by Kawan Elthon, at the end of November 2022, at one of the Water Connections project sites. It features a child from Mbinudita, a small village in eastern Sumba that does not have water access (or not yet, but soon). When he wants water, he has to walk for hours and bring one or two five-litre jerry cans, which he often fills with dirty water. He is, therefore, often ill and hires so many people here.

But there, while Fair Future and Kawan Baik are building new toilets, the clean and present water is flowing from one of the thirty tanks of more than 6,000 litres that we have built.

It's magical to see this kid staring at water flowing from a pipe for the first time in his life. I find it brilliant. It gives me the strength to continue in what we are doing.

Do you have medical equipment or clothes?

by Alex | Dec 2, 2022 | Call for Donation, Urgent Needs, We are the Future

Extract and Description of this short News | As part of the departure of the Truck of Life – week #2 of December 2022 – for Sumba East and our Medical-Social Base Camp, we still have a little space available to load equipment such as Medical equipment, medicines and clothes for children and newborns that you no longer use. You can bring all of this to us at the foundation headquarters (see the link here to find us in Denpasar). Here is a list of medicines and other materials you need to bring to Rumah Baik, Denpasar Selatan. Thank you very much for your support Kawan,

Fair Future Impact in One Snapshot

by Alex | Dec 1, 2022 |

Each Picture of the Day reveals a reality lived by millions. Shot by Fair Future’s teams in extreme conditions, these images bring voice to the unseen stories of resilience and action in Indonesia.

The construction of this 6700 liter water tank is complete

by Alex | Dec 1, 2022 | Picture of the day

Thanks to the water we fetch deep in the ground via one of the deep boreholes already drilled, we can supply one of the thirty reservoirs built, including this one, for the Water Connections Project here in Mbinudita,

This facility will enable approximately 25 families to live healthier and more hygienic lives. This improvement decreases exposure to diseases caused by unclean water or lack of toilets.

Everyone is at work here in East Sumba

by Alex | Dec 1, 2022 | Picture of the day

Since August 2021, our teams have been at work. We have built over thirty Clean Water Tanks and now nearly twenty sanitary facilities for the Water Connections Project here in Mbinudita, East Sumba.

This work could not be done with our hands because the staff of Fair Future and Kawan Baik are on site; it comes down to eight people employed on the sites. These women and men from this poor and ultra-rural region are the real heroes of the projects we are carrying out.

They are the ones who, for years (previously with the Mbinudita school), have been working with us. They are part of our family now.

Still building clean and safe water tanks in East Sumba…

by Alex | Nov 30, 2022 | Picture of the day

Water connections create a clean water network for families from rural areas in eastern Indonesia. Each facility includes gender-specific toilets, showers and access to life-sustaining drinking water.

These water points also aim to improve people's health, especially children. From a single borehole, we create water networks using the slope of the land, solar energy or hydrodynamic pumps.

Water to reduce infant mortality, birth problems and serious illnesses linked to the consumption of unsanitary water. Improving living conditions, creating economic opportunity, creating wealth and creating mental well-being

Healthy Sanitation Construction Program

by Alex | Nov 30, 2022 | Picture of the day

This photo is from this week. In the regions where we are active, tens of thousands of people cannot use the toilets. Do you know why? Quite simply because they don't have any, because they don't have water and no financial resources to ensure their construction.

The inhabitants, therefore, have no other means than to relieve themselves in fields, bushes, forests, ditches, streets, canals or other open areas. In our view, this is not only an attack on dignity but, above all, enormous risks to the health of families, especially vulnerable people: children, the elderly, pregnant women and the chronically ill. That's why we continue to build healthy sanitary facilities at this time with the "Water Connections" program in East Sumba.

Kawan Sehat, the book for an healthier life

by Alex | Nov 30, 2022 |

Kawan Sehat, the full book for a healthier life

by Alex | Nov 30, 2022 | Primary Medical Care, We are the Future

The Foundation has created an illustrated book for the young in the ultra-rural areas of eastern Indonesia. Where knowing how to read and write is not shared. It will serve as a reference book and gather most of the information on a better lifestyle, the tips and tricks that are “normal” but that most don’t know here. Here it is in its preview version. There are still about ten pages missing in the process of colouring.

Kawan Sehat, the book for the Sumba kids

by Alex | Nov 29, 2022 | Picture of the day

Kawan Sehat means "healthy friend". This is a book for children in rural areas. Our friend Bayu illustrated these boards simply for the children to understand immediately. Each panel presents Rambu (the woman), Umbu (the man) and a Horse (the most sacred animal of East Sumba) around socio-sanitary themes. The foundation's medical teams, familiar with local customs and traditions, treated about twenty subjects. Since the beginning of January, the foundation's medical teams have been developing additional medical topics for this book.

We invite you to get to know "Kawan Sehat" in .PDF format, in its latest version, by clicking on this link. Happy reading, Kawan.

Primary Medical Care Program

by Alex | Nov 29, 2022 |

Preparing primary health care kits