Delivering Care…
Door-to-door training, every day
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.
Kawan Sehat: Bridging the Healthcare Gap Where No Doctors Go | Kawan Sehat health agents, who are trained community volunteers, play a crucial role in delivering essential medical care to ultra-rural villages lacking access to doctors. They diagnose and treat common ailments, work on infection prevention, and educate families about health and hygiene practices. With support from Fair Future, these volunteers receive continuous training along with necessary medical supplies and supervision. Their efforts save lives by preventing diseases and ensuring healthcare is accessible even for the most isolated communities.
The Kawan Sehat Agents category of Fair Future Foundation showcases our dedicated health agents working in ultra-rural Indonesia. These local women and men receive specialized training to deliver medical care, provide health education, and support their communities in remote areas. Their commitment strengthens healthcare access and empowers families to improve their well-being, transforming lives in the most isolated villages.
In MbinuDita, Kawan Sehat health work began with two women and a backpack. After more than three years as the first call for fevers, wounds and malaria, Agustina and Ferias end their mission, return their equipment and help prepare new agents so village care grows from twenty to thirty trained workers.
In Lahiru, Kawan Sehat health workers Sarlota and Yosef wake with the sun, walk steep paths for water, farm the hillsides and open their house as a small clinic. This film lets you follow their routine of cooking, washing, treating fevers and wounds so neighbors in a remote village can stay on their feet.
In this article you finally discover who are Kawan Sehat health agents, not as numbers but as people. Through portraits and short testimonies they explain who they are, where they live, the patients they care for and why they chose to become the first line of medical care in remote East Sumba hills every day.
In the hills of East Sumba, Kawan Sehat health agents walk for hours to reach families who live far from any clinic or road. Equipped with a medical backpack and solid training, they treat fevers, wounds and malaria, document every case, and call our doctors when a life is in danger and transfer is possible.
The Water Connections Program provides sustainable access to clean water through ferrocement reservoirs, toilets, and food gardens. In ultra-rural Indonesia, water is the start of health, nutrition, and education. Without it, life is impossible. With it, dignity returns.
Kawan Sehat agents are trained women from rural villages who deliver medical care where no other system exists. Their work is vital, human, and lifesaving—guided by knowledge, trust, and compassion.
Erwin, the Field Coordinator of the Primary Medical Care programme, spends days crossing muddy roads, broken bridges, and steep trails to deliver medicines to Kawan Sehat agents. His work keeps remote East Sumba villages connected to lifesaving care, dignity, and trusted medical support.
In May, 21 Kawan Sehat health agents completed intensive training in primary care. They now serve nearly 1,000 patients each month in remote Indonesian villages, offering medical treatment, prevention, and education where no doctors are available.
This new photo of the day shows Erwin delivering a Kawan Sehat certificate to Ibu Anggi in Laindatang. It’s not just a document, but a symbol of her essential role in healthcare delivery where there are no doctors.
In May 2025, Kawan Sehat agents completed a powerful three-day training in East Sumba, boosting their medical skills, restocking kits, and preparing to treat hundreds in ultra-rural areas.
In East Sumba, women carry life-saving care on their backs. These medical backpacks contain over 50 essential items and are central to Fair Future’s Primary Medical Care program. A tool of autonomy and survival.
Erwin prepares life-saving medical kits for health agents working in villages without doctors, pharmacies, or roads. Logistics becomes a vital part of healthcare for thousands in East Sumba.
