The Fair Future Foundation in East Indonesia combats social and medical injustice and aims to ensure everyone has access to healthcare, clean water, and education. Join us in making a difference.
East Sumba—where Fair Future implements life-saving programs for clean water, health care, and community resilience.
East Sumba, where we work at the time of writing this article, was experiencing a dramatic malaria epidemic. In the first quarter of 2023, there were more than 28,000 cases of Malaria, a significant increase from the previous year. A few months ago, Fair Future declared this life-threatening emergency.
We’re expanding our warehouse at Rumah Kambera! Initially, it will store medical supplies and 2,200 SolarBuddy lamps from Rotary and SolarBuddy. In 2025, it will also host a small laboratory project. Click here to view the plans and see how this new facility will support our mission. Thank you!
We distributed 450 malaria mosquito nets across East Sumba villages. Each family received a net, printed guidance, and a sewing kit for repairs. By combining distribution with education, families learned why correct use matters for preventing deadly malaria infections.
In four villages of East Sumba, Fair Future led days of malaria education and screening. Communities learned, played, asked questions, and discovered how to protect their families. Hundreds were tested, treated, and equipped with mosquito nets. Together, knowledge saves lives.
Malaria has a significant impact on Eastern Indonesia, specifically Sumba Timur, due to its remote and inaccessible locations, insufficient healthcare infrastructure, and limited preventative measures. Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria are both prevalent in these areas, with malaria transmission occurring year-round.
Last week, the pump for our Mbinudita Water Connections project experienced a failure due to an electrical short circuit. We responded promptly by repairing the issue and installing a backup pump to maintain water supply continuity. Providing access to water is essential, and ensuring it reaches the community is our highest priority.
Work is in full swing at Rumah Kambera, East Sumba, where we are preparing a three-day training session for dozens of Kawan Sehat health agents. Around 50 people, including doctors and nurses, will gather to learn how to provide life-saving care in regions with no medical resources. This is a unique, life-saving program.
In Hambarita, Fair Future builds 8 clean water tanks to serve 150 people living in ultra-rural poverty. With no roads, electricity, or healthcare, these reservoirs offer essential health protection.
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.
Published for World Sepsis Day, the preliminary East Sumba sepsis study brings together 1,001 household interviews and 162 healthcare-worker responses. It documents major gaps in WASH, timely access, sepsis training, treatment readiness and referral without claiming sepsis prevalence.
Indonesia’s MBG programme was built to improve nutrition, yet repeated food-poisoning outbreaks have exposed a basic failure in food safety. More than 50,000 cases and 1,999 suspended kitchens show why mass feeding requires strict hygiene, safe water, temperature control and accountability.
Fair Future delivered CHF 12000 in essential medical equipment to RSUD Waingapu, Sumba’s sole public hospital serving nearly 1’000’000 people. This medical equipment donation was based on the real needs expressed by doctors and nurses, ensuring frontline teams receive the tools they truly require.
