Children can't learn effectively in darkness or when suffering from chronic infections. By electrifying schools, improving nutrition, and providing treatment for common illnesses, we create safe environments for learning and development. In this way, education acts as a shield against poverty and social exclusion.
Fair Future Foundation, a Swiss-based non-profit, is an innovative force in global healthcare and social aid.
Know your status, take an HIV test now – HIV prevention poster used by Kawan Sehat health agents.
We work in some of the most remote regions of Southeast Asia, where there are no doctors, no electricity, and often no clean water. For over sixteen years, Fair Future has been on the ground, creating long-term medical and social solutions with the communities who live here.
Through the Primary Medical Care programme, we treat wounds, infections, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and chronic illnesses directly in remote villages. With access to clean water, safe reservoirs, and nutritional support, communities can finally prevent disease rather than suffer from it.
Our approach is simple: stay close, listen, understand, and act with science and solidarity. Every action we take aims to strengthen families, improve health, and reduce preventable deaths.
Your support sustains this work. It transforms long days under the sun, muddy roads, and emergency care into measurable change for those who have nowhere else to turn. Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation – Updated in November 2025
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Help us treat people no one else reaches
Every franc you contribute funds a medical service. It provides medicines, dressings, lab tests, and clean water systems that prevent children from getting sick. It also fuels solar lights to keep vaccines cold and enable nighttime care.
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How your donations are used?
Fair Future ensures that 93% of every donated franc directly funds our field projects. This supports providing medical care, building clean water wells, and eradicating malaria-related diseases. Our transparency maximizes impact, allowing life-saving solutions to reach vulnerable communities farthest from aid access, demonstrating your generosity’s difference in their lives.
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WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW
Field stories of wounds treated, clean water built, and families protected
These articles are not reports — they are moments from the field. They show how we care for wound infections, bring clean water to villages, train health agents, and travel days to reach isolated families. This is the reality of our medical work.
Building Sanitation Facilities for Health and Dignity
Our sanitation facilities, such as this toilet in East Sumba, offer clean and sustainable...
Donate Supplies to Support Our Projects and Communities
Supporting us is simple! You can contribute supplies at locations in Sumba, Denpasar, or Switzerland. We’re in need of educational materials, medical supplies, polio and malaria diagnostic tests, solar panels, construction tools, clothing items for children as well as books and bedding. Your donations will directly aid our ongoing programs. We appreciate your help!
Polio Resurgence in Remote Indonesia: Urgent Action Needed
Polio is making a comeback in Indonesia, particularly in the areas where we operate. This outbreak is connected to inadequate hygiene practices, insufficient sanitation, and restricted access to clean water. With limited resources, we are vigorously combating it by launching prevention campaigns and enhancing water access as well as sanitation facilities to safeguard vulnerable communities.
Kawan Sehat Workers Treat Dozens of Cases Daily
The daily case load managed by Kawan Sehat health agents through the #PrimaryMedicalCare program is truly remarkable. Each day, they deliver crucial first aid services, saving lives and enhancing health for individuals who lack access to basic care. Visit our photo gallery to see the extraordinary efforts of these women and the foundation at work on site.
Introducing the New Truck n’ Load for Water Projects
Introducing our new logistics truck, the “Truck n’Load,” equipped with a 1,000-liter water tank to deliver clean water to remote villages. Tomorrow, we begin applying decals illustrating our efforts to provide water and sanitation. Alex will collect the truck in Surabaya next week—an incredible addition to our foundation!
Medical Teams Deliver Care in Rural East Sumba
Fair Future’s medical teams, led by Dr. Narni, offer vital healthcare services to remote villages in East Sumba. Utilizing the Truck of Life, they address illnesses, combat malnutrition, and advocate for clean water access to ensure no community is overlooked. Their commitment is essential in regions where healthcare remains out of reach and infectious diseases go unchecked.
14-Year-Old Girl’s Critical Medical Treatment Begins
A 14-year-old girl from Hudumburung, abandoned by her family due to poverty, has endured severe illness for years. Thanks to Kawan Sehat’s intervention, she is now undergoing essential medical tests and receiving care—her first step toward a better future. Many more children in remote regions remain without help.
Switch to Rainwater Tank After Drilling Ends
As previously stated, Fair Future has ceased the drilling project after nine months of extensive efforts. Over the last three weeks, our focus has shifted to an alternative solution: constructing a 100m³ underground rainwater reservoir to supply clean water to a community in urgent need. Project plans and cost estimates are attached for your review.
Our impact in 2024, measured where healthcare does not exist
These figures reflect real patients, real treatments, and real kilometres crossed to bring care where no doctor is available.
Medical consultations delivered in ultra-rural villages where no doctor or health center is available
Litres of safe water storage built or funded so families can drink, cook, and wash without risking disease
People reached with daily health education on hygiene, malaria prevention, clean water, and nutrition
Children now able to study, read, and move safely after dark thanks to clean, reliable solar light
2024 Annual Report – 15 Years of Concrete Action
Discover Fair Future’s 2024 Annual Report—a compelling testament to our work in East Sumba, from primary healthcare and access to clean water to nutrition and education programmes. This year marked our 15th anniversary, a significant milestone in resilience, impact, and innovation. The full report, available in both French and English, reflects the lives we have touched and the urgent challenges that lie ahead.
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Real moments from our medical, water, and community missions in ultra-rural Indonesia. Nothing staged — just the daily reality of our work on the ground.
Our core programmes in ultra rural Indonesia
We work in the extreme east of Indonesia, in ultra rural villages with no doctors, no electricity, and often no clean water. These programmes turn medical knowledge, community effort, and solidarity into concrete solutions for families who live far from any form of care.
Primary Medical Care
Trained Kawan Sehat health agents provide first line medical care in villages without doctors. With equipped medical backpacks and remote supervision, they treat wounds, infections, fevers, malaria, and chronic illness for 700 to 1 000 patients every month. This programme prevents simple problems from becoming emergencies.
Water Connections
We drill wells, build ferrocement reservoirs, and install safe water points so families can drink, cook, wash, and grow food without risking disease. Clean water reduces diarrhoea, malnutrition, and many infections we see daily in our clinics. Every tank and every tap is a public health intervention.
Kawan Against Malaria
In malaria endemic areas we combine prevention, rapid tests, treatment, and education. Long lasting insecticidal nets, indoor spraying, field studies, and posters help reduce fevers, anaemia, and deaths, especially among children and pregnant women. This programme links community action with rigorous medical follow up.
Light and Energy for Health
With partners such as SolarBuddy and Smart Energy Tech, we bring solar light and basic electricity to schools, homes, and health posts. Light at night means safer deliveries, homework after sunset, functioning fridges for vaccines, and fewer injuries on dark paths. Energy access becomes a tool to protect health.