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.
PROJECTS TO SUPPORT
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Explore practical projects from our work in East Sumba. You can contribute part of a project's budget; you do not need to fund it all.
Health education posters in East Sumba
Albatros Paper Posters – Health Education in East Sumba
Fund ten illustrated A2 Albatros paper posters and supplies for health education in East Sumba.
Total project budgetCHF 31
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A Kawan Sehat health agent during a field visit in East Sumba
Medi Backpack – Field Kit for Kawan Sehat Agents
Equip one Kawan Sehat health agent with a 12-litre field kit for first-line care, health education and patient follow-up in East Sumba.
Total project budgetCHF 178
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The Kawan Sehat Book in use in East Sumba
Kawan Sehat Book for schools in East Sumba
Give a teacher in East Sumba the Kawan Sehat storybook, its storytelling guide and supplies for practical health lessons.
Total project budgetCHF 15
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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 Mother, a Feverish Child, and the Long Road to Medical Care in Haray
A mother carries her feverish child along an unpaved road in Haray, East Sumba. The nearest health post is an estimated 10–12 kilometres away. This photograph brings the distance into view and explains why a trained Kawan Sehat agent could offer families a first contact closer to home.
Around One Table at Lewa, Connecting Village Care with the Health Centre
At Puskesmas Lewa, our team joined staff and two new Kawan Sehat agents for nearly three hours of questions and exchange. Fabric posters and foundation books supported a practical discussion about care in distant villages, limited resources and the people keeping that care connected.
East Sumba Waste Crisis and a Prayer for Public Action
Two bowed heads beside a waste-sorting poster bring the East Sumba waste crisis into focus. Fair Future billboards and Kawan Sehat agents explain prevention in towns and villages. Alex asks why communities must keep waiting for public services to meet their responsibility to protect health.
Kawan Sehat medicine restocking: keeping care within reach in East Sumba
Two long days at Puskesmas Kawangu and Kataka connect medicine replenishment with new health cards, case review and support for Kawan Sehat agents. A discussion about severe scalds and used motor oil shows why safe first aid, prevention and referral belong alongside essential supplies.
Rumah Kambera Ground Levelling Moves Forward
We ordered another 30 truckloads of sirtu for Rumah Kambera. Two full days of spreading in around 38°C heat, with a hired Hitachi mini excavator, have left roughly 35–40% of the site levelled. This stage finished on 4 November. We are now hoping for rain to help the soil and sand mixture settle.
The Light They Can Take Home, and the Children Still Waiting
Children in East Sumba lift their SolarBuddy lamps above classroom desks. These gifts can help with homework and movement after dark. We look at what portable light means at home, the schools still without electricity, and the administrative obstacles facing our next import of lamps.
One Health and the Cost of Destroying Our Own Future
Human, animal and environmental health share the same future. From East Sumba, Alex Wettstein confronts poverty, infections, unequal responsibility and the limits of medicine. What are we leaving our children when we damage the conditions that sustain life, then expect healthcare to repair them?
A Place for Joy, Made by Their Own Hands
In Haray, three children share a toy made from branches. We photographed them while installing electricity at a school and providing medical care. Their joy belongs in the story, alongside scarce water, fragile health and family means that put bought toys and birthday cakes out of reach.
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
Direct expenditure allocated to Fair Future’s field programs according to the latest audited annual accounts.
Independent annual accounts
The figure comes from audited expenditure, not from a fixed internal formula or a marketing estimate.
Recalculated each financial year
The allocation can change as programs, emergencies and operating needs evolve from one financial year to the next.
The 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.
