From the field in East Sumba. Medical care, clean water, prevention and community health where access remains difficult.
WHO WE ARE · WHY WE WORK HERE
Healthcare where access ends. Local capacity that lasts.
Fair Future Foundation is a Swiss medical non-profit working year-round in East Sumba, Indonesia. Here, distance, poverty and limited infrastructure can turn treatable illness into an emergency.
With local health agents and community partners, we provide primary medical care, disease prevention, clean water, nutrition support and health education. Field logistics help us reach isolated villages. Training helps communities continue this work locally.
Rumah Kambera Community Center is our next step: a permanent socio-medical base in Kawangu. It will bring together care, training, a pharmacy, diagnostics, logistics and community education.
Our goal is stronger local capacity. Earlier care and practical knowledge help communities protect their own health.
Put care within reach.
Your contribution helps keep medicines, primary care, clean water, prevention and field logistics moving towards communities where access remains difficult.
Direct expenditure allocated to field action in the latest audited annual accounts.
One-time or monthly donation. Amount, programme and payment are completed securely on the donation page.
OUR NEXT CHAPTER
The future of health is built with communities
Rumah Kambera Community Center is the next step in how we work in East Sumba: primary care, training, prevention, education, logistics and field innovation brought together in one permanent socio-medical center.
We build with local communities, not for them. Sustainable systems, local skills, clean water, nutrition and practical health education are how we turn short-term assistance into lasting capacity, resilience and greater independence.
Care that stays · Knowledge that spreads · Systems communities can own
RUMAH KAMBERA · COMMUNITY SOCIO-MEDICAL CENTRE
Explore Rumah Kambera before the first building rises.
The project now has its own website, with an interactive 3D model, architectural views and construction updates from Kawangu.
Site preparation continues on our 4,200 m² site in Kawangu. We now hope to begin Phase 1 before the end of 2026, funding permitting. The first building is planned to bring together a small medical centre, a secure pharmacy, a small laboratory, a workshop and storage. Additional parts of the centre will follow as funding allows.
Project document: EnglishFrançais
The dedicated Rumah Kambera website follows the project from site preparation to construction, with new architectural views, field updates and the interactive 3D model.
WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW
Recent medical care, clean water, prevention and field operations across East Sumba.
These are not reports. They are recent moments from the field: patients treated, water systems built, health agents trained, and teams reaching isolated communities.
A Woman Shelling Maize Shows the Daily Reality of Food Insecurity in East Sumba
A woman shells maize in an ultra-rural East Sumba home without clean water, electricity or road access. Her daily work reflects the difficulty of obtaining varied food, and why nutrition education must be connected with practical access to water, affordable foods and medical care.
Health Prevention Billboards Bring HIV and Waste Education to Waingapu
In Waingapu, East Sumba, HIV and waste management billboards bring prevention into public view. Around twenty panels are planned alongside the sepsis study, with Rotary Australia, Lab Without Walls and Kawan Baik Indonesia, linking clear information with care and safer daily practices.
From Plans to Materials at Rumah Kambera
An architectural rendering of Building 1 at Rumah Kambera accompanies the internal construction document now defining floor tiles, paint colours, doors and windows for the medical and workshop areas. Some details remain to be confirmed before work moves from drawings to construction.
Desiana Brings Community Health Education into Lahiru’s Posyandu Care
In Lahiru, East Sumba, Kawan Sehat agent Desiana explains prevention during a health action co-organised with the local Posyandu. Fabric posters support discussion of malaria symptoms, mosquito-bite prevention, alcohol-related harm and waste management with children and adults alike.
Health Education in Laihiru Connects Kawan Sehat Training with the Youngest Learners
Photographed by a village resident on 11 September 2026, this gathering in Laihiru links Kawan Sehat training with family health education. Active since 2022, Primary Medical Care supports 25 agents who use portable fabric posters to share practical prevention knowledge across East Sumba.
The Final Wall at Rumah Kambera
Work on the final side of the Rumah Kambera boundary wall is under way in Kawangu, East Sumba. The walls are expected to be complete next week. Then sirtu, a mix of sand and stone, will be spread and compacted to level the sloping north-eastern site before construction begins at the centre.
Community Healthcare in East Sumba Begins with a Visit Inside a Home
In Nggaha Ori Angu, Rambu Esther provides community healthcare East Sumba inside a woman’s home. As a Kawan Sehat health agent, she brings essential medicines, clinical advice and early assessment, then links families safely to our medical team when referral or further care is needed.
Community Care Days in East Sumba With a Prescription for Health
Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia are preparing a new step in community care days in Sumba. After consultation and medicine dispensing, patients would agree on one or two realistic health actions, practise them and receive Kawan Sehat follow-up when needed. This is a proposed model.
2025 · EAST SUMBA & EASTERN INDONESIA
What the work delivered in 2025
These figures come from field records, programme monitoring and our annual reporting — not from projections.
Primary care
13,000+
Consultations and treatments delivered in remote communities during 2025.
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Clean water
350,000 L
Clean water storage secured across multiple sites during 2025.
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Health & prevention
≈400,000
People reached through malaria, hygiene and disease-prevention campaigns.
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Solar light
3,000–4,000
Children with access to solar lighting for study and safer daily life.
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Where your donation goes
According to our latest audited annual accounts, 98.3% of funds were allocated directly to field action. This percentage is recalculated from actual audited expenditure and may therefore change from one financial year to another.
98.3%
LATEST AUDITED FIELD ALLOCATION
Direct expenditure allocated to Fair Future’s field programs according to the latest audited annual accounts.
AUDITED
INDEPENDENT ANNUAL ACCOUNTS
The figure comes from audited expenditure, not from a fixed internal formula or a marketing estimate.
ANNUAL
RECALCULATED EACH FINANCIAL YEAR
The allocation can change as programs, emergencies and operating needs evolve from one financial year to the next.
Stories from the Field
Documentary films from East Sumba, made inside the work itself. Healthcare, clean water, energy, education and daily life, filmed with the people and communities we work beside.
Sumba Sepsis Study 2026
In East Sumba, severe infection can become a race against distance, delayed recognition and limited access to care. This field film follows the people behind our 1,001-household study and why early action matters.
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The Day Night Changed
At Mbajik School in East Sumba, electricity arrived for the first time after five days of work with Smart Energy Tech and the village. The film follows the people, the build and Haray’s first cinema night.
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Matawai, The Shades of Water
In East Sumba, water scarcity shapes health, work and childhood every day. This 15-minute documentary follows the people behind Matawai and the practical impact of the Water Connections programme.
Watch the film on YouTubeThe field, in pictures.
Medical care, water, construction and daily life, photographed by our teams in East Sumba. These are direct visual records of the places, people and work behind our programmes.
LIVE FROM EAST SUMBA
From the field, as it happens
Daily moments from our medical, water, education and community work in East Sumba. Patients treated, teams on the road, systems being built, people learning, working and solving problems together. Nothing staged. Just the work as it happens.
