Who are we
Kathrin and Matthias Furrer
Matthias and Kathrin are the founders of Furrer Foundation. They are both medical doctors and have spent most of their adult life in African countries working in rural areas at small hospitals. Their main focus concerning their work - be it Switzerland or in African countries - lays in enhancing lives of people living in rural areas through improvement of services like health and education and promoting living standards of people based in rural areas (job creation, access to better housing, promotion of appropriate and sustainable food production, support of entrepreneurship). Since 10 years they live and work in Zambia at Mpanshya Hospital.
Benjamin Furrer
Benjamins interests for livestock as well as wildlife have always been evident. As a teenager in Switzerland already he turned his parents backyard into a small-scale farm. Spending part of his childhood in Africa and traveling different parts of it later made his love for the continent, its people and wildernesses grow constantly. During his veterinary studies in Bern Benjamin did courses and internships in Conservation medicine in South Africa and his civil service in Tanzania. After University he started as a volunteer in livestock projects in Rufunsa District.
Thomas Furrer
Thomas has a bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Zurich in Applied Sciences. He grew up in different rural projects of his parents, often in remote African outskirts. His emphasis is in natural resources production in a farm project in the remote north of the country - Mporokoso. The development of the pioneer project includes the basic infrastructure as no development was present at the start of the project. Through basic infrastructure development such as roads and bridges the project aims to utilise the natural resources of the area and convert it into valuable food for the urban market. This should stimulate development and agricultural production in the area benefitting the community and the not-for-profit commercial farm.
Maurice Krämer
Maurice has a broad range of in-depth experience in financial and company management – small firms to large multinational corporations. He has been positioned in various countries and has worked with different cultures. After graduating with an MBA degree in Financial Accounting at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Maurice served the last 25 years as CFO for different internationally active companies in the industrial and pharmaceutical sector. He has decided to devote his experience now to the build up of a microfinance operation in the Rufunsa District, Zambia, under the roof of the Furrer Foundation.