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WHO WE ARE · WHY WE WORK HERE
Healthcare where access ends. Local capacity that lasts.
Fair Future Foundation is a Swiss non-profit working year-round in East Sumba, Indonesia, where distance, poverty and weak infrastructure still turn treatable illness into emergencies.
Together with local health agents and community partners, we provide primary medical care, infectious-disease prevention, clean water, nutrition support, health education and field logistics. We stay close to communities and build practical systems that can continue locally.
Rumah Kambera Community Center is the next step: a permanent socio-medical base in Kawangu bringing care, training, pharmacy, diagnostics, logistics and community education together under one roof.
Our goal is not dependency. It is stronger local capacity, earlier care and communities better equipped to 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
A COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE IN CONSTRUCTION · KAWANGU
Rumah Kambera, a permanent home for care
Construction is underway on the Foundation's own 4,200 m² site.
The new centre will bring primary care, a secure pharmacy, a small laboratory, Kawan Sehat training, water analysis and field logistics together under one roof. It is being built so medicines can be stored safely, teams can prepare before departure, patients can be followed, and care can keep moving towards villages where public services remain distant.
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Construction updates, field notes, plans and funding progress are published on the programme page.
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.
Our Team Holds a Waste Sorting Billboard Before It Goes Up in Waingapu
At Rumah Kambera, our team holds a waste sorting billboard before it goes up in Waingapu. Ten panels will carry a message about discarded plastic, burning and shared responsibility. The photograph connects everyday choices with collection services, education and public health in East Sumba.
Two Teammates Hold an HIV Testing Billboard Before It Goes Up in Waingapu
At Rumah Kambera, two members of our team hold an HIV prevention billboard before it goes up in Waingapu. Ten panels will ask people to learn their status. The photograph connects a public message with confidential testing, confirmation, treatment and care without shame in East Sumba.
An Older Man in Mbajik Tells His Story Where Electricity Has Arrived
In Mbajik, East Sumba, an older man sits outside a wooden building and shares his story. His family says he is 106, though his birth date is unverified. He still walks each day and speaks clearly about a life that is difficult at his age. His portrait asks us to listen before we speak about care.
Inside a Ferrocement Reservoir Built for Safe Rainwater
Fair Future Foundation and Kawan Baik Indonesia team members apply waterproofing inside a 5,300-litre ferrocement reservoir in East Sumba. Local villagers work beside them and learn a practical technique that brings filtered rainwater closer to three rural households.
Sumba Sepsis Study Film | Now on YouTube
Watch the 11-minute Sumba Sepsis Study film, following more than 1,000 household interviews across remote East Sumba. It records the people, roads and care barriers behind the 2026 fieldwork, and why earlier recognition and referral matter before infection becomes an emergency.
Cooking Should Not Cost Your Health
Across the study villages, firewood use was nearly universal, and many cooking areas were inside the home or immediately beside it. The Sumba Sepsis Study documents the exposure while being clear that ventilation and indoor particle levels were not measured.
Kawan Sehat Wound Care Brings Timely Care to East Sumba
Inside a rural East Sumba home, a Kawan Sehat health agent assesses and treats a wound. For patients far from hospital care, timely first-contact care, clear advice and early referral can reduce the risk of delayed infection and severe illness.
Plastic Waste Education Reaches Young Children in East Sumba
A Kawan Sehat health agent teaches young children how to reduce, sort and safely manage plastic waste in a rural East Sumba classroom. The school now has clean water from a new 5,300-litre reservoir, but still has no electricity. Prevention begins with words children can use at home.
2025 · EASTERN INDONESIA
Impact measured where access is hardest
These figures come from the work itself: consultations delivered, safe water storage built, health education carried into communities and solar light placed in homes and schools.
Primary care
13,600+
Medical consultations delivered in ultra-rural communities where access to a doctor or clinic remains extremely limited.
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Clean water
350,000 L
Safe water storage built or funded for families who need reliable water for drinking, cooking and hygiene.
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Health education
480,000+
People reached through practical education on hygiene, malaria prevention, clean water and basic nutrition.
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Solar light
3,800
Children reached with clean solar lighting for safer homes, schools, study and movement after dark.
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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.
