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.
Fair Future partners with global organizations.
To enhance healthcare, education, and clean water access in vulnerable ultra-rural communities.
At Fair Future Foundation, we prioritize providing accurate and reliable information to support informed decision-making for both our initiatives and the communities we serve.
We carefully select external resources that align with our core values and programs, including global health projects, educational collaborations, clean water efforts, and social empowerment efforts. These trusted sources share our commitment to improving health outcomes, education standards, and opportunities for vulnerable populations in ultra-rural areas.
Here is a list of organizations and resources that we frequently consult. Each link provides additional insight into critical areas that impact our work, from combating infectious diseases to advancing sustainable development. These partners and platforms are essential to our work, and we invite you to learn more about their missions as they enhance and support our ongoing initiatives.
Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation – Updated in November 2025
Trusted External Sources
Community-Based & Emergency Medical Care
- Doctors Without Borders (MSF): Provides emergency medical aid in crisis zones and remote locations, mirroring Fair Future’s commitment to healthcare access in ultra-rural areas.
- Partners In Health: Delivers high-quality healthcare to underserved populations, emphasizing primary medical care and disease prevention, like Fair Future.
- Last Mile Health: Trains and supports community health workers to bring essential medical care to remote populations, similar to Fair Future’s Kawan Sehat program.
- VillageReach: Strengthens healthcare systems in rural areas by improving medical supply chains and training health workers, aligning with Fair Future’s PMC program.
- Living Goods: Uses a network of trained community health workers to provide primary healthcare, maternal health support, and disease prevention education, much like Fair Future.
- Project HOPE: Trains medical professionals and deploys healthcare teams to provide essential care in underserved areas, similar to Fair Future’s fieldwork.
- Mercy Corps: Improves access to healthcare by supporting local health initiatives and medical infrastructure in vulnerable communities.
- Health in Harmony: Works in remote communities to integrate healthcare and environmental conservation, much like Fair Future’s holistic health approach.
- International Medical Corps: Provides emergency healthcare and medical training in crisis-affected areas, supporting long-term health resilience.
- OneWorld Health: Develops self-sustaining healthcare systems in regions with limited medical infrastructure, focusing on community-based primary care.
- Medic Mobile: Equips community health workers with mobile tools to track patients, monitor health trends, and coordinate medical care in remote areas.
- International Rescue Committee (IRC) – Health Programs: Provides healthcare services, nutrition support, and disease prevention programs in crisis situations.
- Direct Relief: Delivers medical supplies, vaccines, and emergency response support to underserved regions.
- MAP International: Provides essential medicines and healthcare programs for vulnerable populations worldwide.
- BRAC – Health Program: Trains community health workers to provide essential medical care and disease prevention in ultra-rural regions.
- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Supports vaccination efforts in low-income countries, ensuring access to immunization against preventable diseases.
- PATH: Develops and implements community-driven healthcare solutions, particularly for infectious disease control.
- World Vision – Health & Nutrition: Implements healthcare programs focusing on maternal and child health, vaccinations, and disease prevention.
- American Refugee Committee (Alight): Provides healthcare and humanitarian aid to displaced populations and underserved communities.
- Relief International: Supports fragile healthcare systems with emergency medical care and long-term health initiatives.
- Operation Smile: Provides free surgical care to children with cleft conditions, improving access to specialized medical services.
- Smile Train: Supports cleft surgery programs in low-income countries, ensuring access to life-changing medical interventions.
- Water Mission – Safe Water for Healthcare Facilities: Ensures healthcare facilities in rural areas have clean water and sanitation, essential for medical care quality.
- World Health Organization (WHO) – Emergency Medical Teams: Coordinates international medical responses to disasters and crises.
- Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies – Health Services: Provides emergency medical response, first aid training, and public health programs worldwide.
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) – Community Health: Empowers local health volunteers to provide first aid, health education, and disease prevention.
Global Health & Infectious Disease Control
- World Health Organization (WHO): Sets global health standards and leads responses to infectious disease outbreaks such as malaria, tuberculosis, and polio, reference points for Fair Future’s medical work.
- The Global Fund: Finances programs to fight HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, supporting efforts similar to Fair Future’s Kawan Against Malaria program.
- Malaria No More: Works toward global malaria elimination through prevention, advocacy, and policy change, aligned with Fair Future’s Kawan Against Malaria initiative.
- PATH: Develops innovative tools, vaccines, and diagnostics for infectious diseases, echoing Fair Future’s focus on practical, field-adapted medical solutions.
- RBM Partnership to End Malaria: Global partnership coordinating malaria prevention, diagnosis, and treatment efforts, similar to Fair Future’s work in East Sumba.
- Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): Improves access to diagnostics, medicines, and health systems for major infectious diseases, complementing Fair Future’s primary medical care activities.
- Doctors Without Borders (MSF): Provides emergency medical aid in crises and remote locations, sharing Fair Future’s commitment to reaching people far from conventional healthcare.
- Partners In Health (PIH): Delivers healthcare and strengthens health systems in underserved regions, with a strong focus on infectious disease control and social justice.
- Last Mile Health: Trains and supports community and frontline health workers to bring primary care to remote communities, similar to Fair Future’s Kawan Sehat health agents.
- OneWorld Health: Builds sustainable healthcare services for underserved populations, focusing on primary care and infectious disease prevention.
- Living Goods: Empowers digitally equipped community health workers who deliver lifesaving care door to door, mirroring Fair Future’s community-based approach.
- VillageReach: Strengthens health product supply chains and primary care delivery in rural areas, close to Fair Future’s logistics and field medical operations.
- Project HOPE: Provides global medical relief, training, and health systems support, including programs on infectious and non-communicable diseases.
- BRAC: International development organization supporting community health, WASH, and poverty reduction, often through local health workers like Fair Future’s Kawan Sehat.
- Malaria Partners International: Rotary-affiliated organization funding and supporting community-based malaria control projects, directly connected to Fair Future’s work in East Sumba.
Clean Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
- WaterAid: Provides clean water, sanitation, and hygiene in vulnerable communities, closely aligned with Fair Future’s Water Connections program.
- Lifewater International: Develops long-term water and sanitation solutions for rural areas, similar to Fair Future’s work in drought-affected villages.
- charity: water: Funds clean water projects in low-income countries, sharing Fair Future’s goal of safe drinking water for every family.
- UNICEF – WASH Program: Improves access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene worldwide, with a focus on children’s health and development.
- Global Water Challenge (GWC): A coalition accelerating solutions for safe water access, similar to Fair Future’s multi-partner collaborations.
- Sanitation and Water for All (SWA): UN-hosted global partnership advocating for universal access to safe water and sanitation.
- International Water Association (IWA): Promotes sustainable water resource management and sanitation systems worldwide.
- Aguayuda: Provides sustainable water solutions for rural communities, reflecting Fair Future’s field approach in Indonesia.
- Blue Planet Network: Connects and supports clean water projects worldwide, emphasizing community-driven initiatives.
- The Water Project: Builds wells and rainwater harvesting systems in sub-Saharan Africa, similar to Fair Future’s ferro-cement tanks and reservoirs.
- World Vision – WASH Program: Implements large-scale WASH programs with strong community participation and hygiene education.
- Safe Water Network: Creates decentralized, locally managed safe water solutions in underserved communities.
- Pure Water for the World: Delivers safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education in Central America and Haiti.
- Hope Spring Water: Builds wells and boreholes in water-scarce regions, improving daily access to clean water.
- World Health Organization (WHO) – WASH: Issues global guidelines on drinking water safety, sanitation, and hygiene to prevent disease.
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – WASH: Supports innovative sanitation technologies and hygiene solutions for low-income settings.
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) – WASH: Provides emergency water and sanitation services in crises and remote areas.
- IRC WASH: Works with governments and partners to strengthen WASH systems for long-term, reliable access.
- Global Handwashing Partnership: Promotes handwashing and hygiene behavior change, echoing Fair Future’s health education activities.
- Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA): Network dedicated to sustainable, climate-conscious sanitation solutions.
- Splash: Provides safe water and sanitation in schools and urban institutions in low-resource settings.
- Toilet Board Coalition: Supports market-based sanitation solutions that improve hygiene and public health.
- Wash’Em: Designs evidence-based hygiene behavior change programs for humanitarian and development settings.
Healthy Nutrition & Food Security
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): Leads global efforts to eliminate hunger and improve nutrition, supporting sustainable agriculture in regions facing chronic food insecurity.
- World Food Programme (WFP): Provides emergency food assistance and nutrition support, complementing Fair Future’s work with families affected by drought and poverty.
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN): Strengthens food systems and improves access to nutritious diets, echoing Fair Future’s nutrition work with children and mothers.
- Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement: Supports coordinated action among governments and partners to tackle malnutrition and promote healthy, affordable diets.
- Action Against Hunger: Combats malnutrition through food security, clean water, and health interventions, aligned with Fair Future’s field strategies.
- UN Zero Hunger Challenge: Advocates for stronger food systems, sustainable agriculture, and universal access to nutritious meals.
- World Resources Institute (WRI) – Food Program: Develops solutions for sustainable food production and reducing food waste to improve global food security.
- EAT Foundation: Builds partnerships linking science, policy, and food systems to promote healthy diets and planetary well-being.
- The Food Trust: Improves access to nutritious food and supports community nutrition education, resonating with Fair Future’s child health programs.
- Slow Food International: Promotes local, sustainable, and culturally rooted food choices, supporting community resilience in rural areas.
- Global Nutrition Report: Tracks global nutrition trends and highlights urgent gaps, relevant for Fair Future’s work in regions where children suffer from chronic malnutrition.
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): Generates research and policy recommendations to eliminate hunger and build resilient food systems.
- HarvestPlus: Develops biofortified crops rich in essential nutrients, useful for communities with limited dietary diversity.
- Nutrition International: Focuses on micronutrient interventions for mothers, infants, and children—central themes in Fair Future’s medical work.
- Food Security & Nutrition (FSN) Network: Shares evidence-based tools and field practices to strengthen food security initiatives.
Education & Child Development
Education protects children from illness and poverty; these partners support learning, child development, and safe schools.
- Global Partnership for Education (GPE): Ensures that every child has access to quality learning, aligning with Fair Future’s school-building and teacher training initiatives.
- UNICEF – Education Program: Works to provide quality education for every child, with a strong focus on marginalised communities, like those supported by Fair Future.
- Save the Children: Advocates for children’s education, protection, and health, similar to Fair Future’s mission to empower young lives.
- Room to Read: Focuses on literacy and girls' education, aligning with Fair Future’s work in rural education and gender equality.
- Teach For All: Develops teachers and educational resources in underserved areas, mirroring Fair Future’s teacher training programs.
- Plan International – Education & Girls’ Rights: Supports children’s education and gender equality, ensuring girls can access and complete their schooling.
- Education Cannot Wait (ECW): A global fund providing education in crisis and emergency settings relevant to Fair Future’s work in vulnerable regions.
- Right to Education Initiative: Advocates for the universal right to education, emphasizing access for marginalized children.
- Children International: Provides educational support, scholarships, and skills training for children in poverty-stricken communities.
- Ashoka – Changemakers in Education: Empowers educators and young leaders to drive social change in their communities.
- Educate!: Focuses on skills-based learning for youth in Africa, similar to Fair Future’s emphasis on education as a tool for empowerment.
- The Luminos Fund: Provides accelerated learning programs for children who have been left out of formal education systems.
- World Literacy Foundation: Works to end illiteracy and improve reading skills among disadvantaged children.
- The Education Trust: Advocates for equal access to high-quality education for all children, particularly in underserved communities.
- The Malala Fund: Advocates for girls' education and supports initiatives ensuring that all girls can complete 12 years of schooling.
- Pratham: One of India’s largest educational NGOs, providing literacy and numeracy programs for underprivileged children.
- Bridge International Academies: Runs low-cost private schools for children in developing countries, ensuring quality education.
- Barefoot College: Provides education and vocational training for rural communities, with a special focus on empowering women.
- ChildFund International: Focuses on early childhood education, child protection, and school development programs.
- The LEGO Foundation: Supports play-based learning initiatives to foster creativity and problem-solving in children.
- Children’s Defense Fund (CDF): Advocates for children's rights, including access to quality education and healthcare.
- Scholars of Sustenance (SOS): Provides food security and school meals to ensure children can focus on learning without hunger.
- Global Campaign for Education (GCE): A civil society movement advocating for quality, inclusive education worldwide.
- Teach For America: Develops future educators and leaders to improve education equity, similar to Fair Future’s teacher development programs.
- Khan Academy: Offers free, high-quality online education for students worldwide, complementing Fair Future’s efforts in remote learning access.
- Global Fund for Children: Supports grassroots organizations that provide education and child protection in marginalized communities.
Women’s Empowerment, Protection & Gender Equality
- UN Women: Leads global efforts for gender equality, women’s rights, and protection from violence, aligning with Fair Future’s empowerment initiatives.
- UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund: Focuses on reproductive health, maternal care, and prevention of gender-based violence, crucial in ultra-rural healthcare contexts.
- WHO – Violence Against Women Program: Provides data, policy guidance, and global strategies to prevent violence against women and girls.
- Equality Now: Works internationally to end sexual violence, trafficking, and discrimination through legal and policy advocacy.
- Girls Not Brides: Global movement dedicated to ending child marriage and empowering adolescent girls.
- Plan International – Because I Am a Girl: Promotes girls' education and fights gender inequality in vulnerable communities.
- Women for Women International: Supports women in conflict and post-conflict areas through education, training, and rights advocacy.
- Vital Voices: Empowers women leaders and activists working to eliminate violence and promote equality.
- Global Fund for Women: Funds grassroots groups advancing women’s rights, safety, and economic independence.
- IRC – Women’s Protection & Empowerment: Provides essential services and long-term support to women affected by violence and crises.
- Women’s Refugee Commission: Advocates for displaced women and girls, ensuring protection, dignity, and access to healthcare.
- Refuge: Offers emergency services, shelters, and long-term support for survivors of domestic violence.
- RAINN – Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: Provides crisis intervention, prevention programs, and survivor support.
- Malala Fund: Champions girls’ education worldwide to protect rights and promote equality.
- World Bank – Gender Equality: Supports programs enhancing women's economic inclusion, education, and safety.
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Gender Equality: Invests in resources that expand women’s access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities.
- HeForShe: Engages men and boys in supporting gender equality and ending violence against women.
- MenEngage Alliance: Global network promoting gender justice by working with men to prevent violence and harmful norms.
- ActionAid – Women’s Rights: Supports women’s economic empowerment and protection from violence in impoverished regions.
- Women Deliver: Focuses on maternal health, sexual rights, and gender equality, especially in low-resource settings.
- She’s the First: Supports girls' education and leadership programs to empower young women.
- Global Grassroots: Helps women develop and implement social change initiatives within their communities.
- Kiva – Women’s Economic Empowerment: Provides microloans to women entrepreneurs, helping them achieve financial independence.
- Women Win: Uses sport and leadership programs to equip girls and young women with tools for empowerment.
- International Center for Research on Women (ICRW): Conducts research and advocates for policies that advance gender equality globally.
- Grameen Foundation – Women’s Empowerment: Provides financial tools and resources helping women overcome extreme poverty.
- The Hunger Project – Women’s Empowerment: Strengthens women’s leadership to fight hunger and poverty at community level.
- The NO MORE Foundation: Global initiative raising awareness and driving action to end domestic violence and sexual assault.
Climate, Environment & Sustainability
- UN Environment Programme (UNEP): The UN’s core environmental authority, leading global work on climate action, nature protection, and pollution reduction, especially in vulnerable regions.
- UN Climate Change (UNFCCC): The main international treaty framework coordinating global efforts to limit dangerous climate change and support adaptation in exposed countries.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Assesses the scientific evidence on climate change, its impacts, and options for mitigation and adaptation, guiding global policy.
- United Nations – Climate Change: Provides an overview of climate risks, global negotiations, and the links between climate, peace, health, and development.
- World Health Organization – Climate Change & Health: Documents how rising temperatures, extreme weather, and changing disease patterns threaten health and calls for climate-resilient health systems.
- WHO–WMO Joint Climate & Health Programme: Integrates climate and health data to protect communities from heatwaves, storms, air pollution, and other climate-related health threats.
- Green Climate Fund (GCF): The world’s largest dedicated climate fund, supporting mitigation and adaptation projects in developing countries.
- Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI): Helps countries transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient economies through green growth policies and investments.
- Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL): Works to ensure universal access to affordable, clean energy, a key lever for climate action and development.
- Clean Cooking Alliance: Promotes clean cooking solutions to reduce household air pollution, deforestation, and climate emissions while improving health.
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) – Climate & Energy: Advocates for renewable energy, nature-based solutions, and climate resilience for communities and ecosystems.
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Works to protect biodiversity and ecosystems, a core part of climate adaptation and resilience.
- World Resources Institute (WRI) – Climate: Provides data, analysis, and policy support on emissions, climate finance, and just transitions.
- Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC): A global partnership targeting short-lived climate pollutants like black carbon and methane to protect climate and health.
- 350.org: International movement working to end fossil fuel use and accelerate a just transition to renewable energy.
- The Climate Reality Project: Trains climate leaders and raises public awareness on the science and human impact of climate change.
- Rainforest Alliance: Promotes sustainable land use, forest protection, and climate-smart agriculture, supporting both nature and rural communities.
- C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group: Network of major cities collaborating on ambitious policies to cut emissions and build climate resilience.
Renewable Energy & Sustainable Development
- SolarBuddy: Provides solar lights to off-grid communities, improving education, safety, and health, as seen in Fair Future’s programs in East Sumba.
- Lighting Global: Supports access to high-quality solar lighting solutions for remote households.
- Clean Cooking Alliance: Promotes clean cooking technologies to reduce indoor air pollution and protect health.
- Energy 4 Impact: Expands rural energy access and supports solar solutions for underserved communities.
- REEEP – Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership: Supports clean energy markets and sustainable economic growth in developing regions.
- UNDP – Sustainable Energy: Promotes renewable energy access as a driver of economic development and climate resilience.
- Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL): Accelerates universal access to clean, modern, and affordable energy.
- World Resources Institute – Energy Program: Develops sustainable energy strategies for low-income and off-grid communities.
- IRENA – International Renewable Energy Agency: Leads global efforts to scale up renewable energy innovation and deployment.
- The Ashden Awards: Recognizes outstanding clean energy initiatives in developing and emerging countries.
- Green Climate Fund (GCF): Finances large-scale climate resilience and renewable energy projects.
- Global Environment Facility (GEF): Funds renewable energy, biodiversity conservation, and climate action projects worldwide.
- Practical Action – Energy: Develops clean energy solutions to reduce poverty and improve living conditions.
- Barefoot College: Trains rural women as solar engineers, combining renewable energy with community empowerment.
- SunFunder: Finances solar energy access projects for off-grid communities.
- We Care Solar: Provides solar-powered medical equipment to rural clinics for reliable healthcare services.
- The Climate Group – RE100: Encourages major organisations to commit to 100% renewable energy.
- The Carbon Trust: Supports organizations in reducing carbon emissions and adopting clean energy systems.
- Global Footprint Network: Tracks ecological overshoot and promotes sustainable resource use.
- IEA – Renewable Energy: Provides research and data on global clean energy transitions.
- Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI): Researches sustainable development, climate resilience, and energy efficiency.
- UN SDG 7 – Affordable & Clean Energy: Global framework guiding the world toward universal clean energy access.
- Global Solar Council: Promotes global solar energy adoption and industry standards.
- The Solar Foundation: Focuses on solar workforce development and expanding clean energy jobs.
- International Solar Alliance (ISA): Coalition of countries advancing solar energy for sustainable development.
- Clean Energy Council: Leads renewable energy policy and certification in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC): Advocates for wind power expansion and clean energy transitions.
- WWF – Climate & Energy: Supports large-scale renewable energy and climate mitigation programs.
- Friends of the Earth – Climate & Energy: Campaigns for climate justice and sustainable energy development.
- Rainforest Alliance: Promotes sustainable agriculture, forest protection, and climate-smart practices.
- ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability: Helps cities adopt clean energy and resilience strategies.
- EKOenergy: Certifies renewable electricity and promotes clean energy access worldwide.
- Good Solar: Provides solar power solutions for underserved communities and supports energy justice.
Your donation becomes real medical care
Help us reach the unreachable. Every franc you give funds medicines, dressings, tests, and clean water to prevent sickness. It powers solar lights for cold vaccines and night care. It keeps Kawan Sehat agents and Fair Future teams travelling hours to remote villages without doctors or clinics.
Donation Processing Fees and Transparency
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- Stripe: 1.4% + CHF 0.30 for European cards or 2.9% + CHF 0.30 for non-European cards
- PayPal: 1.9% to 2.9% + CHF 0.55 per transaction
- Twint: 1.3% to 1.5%, with no fixed fee
- Swiss bank transfers: No fees for domestic transfers
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