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.
Collaborating with the World Health Organization and other partners to strengthen health systems in East Indonesia.
Today at the Laindatang Water Connections site, we met with the 78 schoolchildren, each receiving a bamboo cotton t-shirt with a drawing of 13-year-old Eben, a local child. The artwork symbolises our completed water supply project for the village, which includes tanks, toilets and access to clean water. The children were delighted not only to have clean water but also to receive these unique t-shirts!
The Fair Future Foundation presents new information dedicated to its child protection policy. We are committed to protecting children’s rights, protecting them from exploitation and ensuring their well-being, health and privacy. Find out how we protect children in all our humanitarian projects.
Social media presents significant threats to children’s mental health, self-esteem, and social abilities. It interferes with their concentration, disrupts sleep patterns, and affects emotional well-being while also exposing them to cyberbullying and damaging content.
Kawan Sehat is expanding! We’re excited to introduce a new page in our children’s book promoting healthy living. This new section focuses on the dangers of smoking, especially secondhand smoke, which harms non-smokers, including children. This new page will be added to our Kawan Sehat book. Smoking is not healthy—smoking kills. Don’t smoke.
Antibiotics without laboratories define daily medical reality in remote East Sumba. Severe infections cannot wait for cultures that do not exist. We treat empirically, guided by clinical expertise, local epidemiology, and strict protocols designed to protect both patients and global antimicrobial effectiveness.
Sepsis in ultra-rural Indonesia often begins with untreated infections caused by lack of access to care. Based on field experience, this article explains how early primary medical care, trained community health agents, and prevention stop infections before they become fatal.
Community Health Brokers operate as a structured health system in ultra rural East Sumba, managing 700 to 1000 consultations monthly. With 80 percent of cases resolved locally under supervision, this Primary Medical Care model reduces preventable hospitalizations and strengthens healthcare access.
In ultra-rural regions, people do not die from rare diseases, but from delays and absence of care. Primary Medical Care restores continuity where systems stop, reducing preventable illness through presence rather than technology.
We are pleased to announce the updated mission document, essential to the functioning of our medical foundation. Available in both French and English, this document is now public and ready for download. We encourage you to read it to learn more about our work. Thank you for your support!
In East Sumba, Kawan Sehat health agents now carry a new tool the HIV prevention poster campaign. Used in homes, schools and small clinics, it explains in simple language how HIV is transmitted, how it is not, and which everyday actions protect families, partners and young people from infection and stigma.
