Recorded August 2024: In this episode, Isabel shares how she went from feeding one homeless man in Brussels to founding Solid’Africa, a movement tackling hospital nutrition in Rwanda. She talks about overcoming funding barriers, rejecting top-down philanthropy, and proving that food is medicine.

Key highlights

• More than 3 billion people in the world can’t afford to have a healthy meal.
• Solid’Africa started by feeding 5 people in 2010 and now serves over 15,000 meals a day and is expanding its impact beyond hospitals into schools and farming cooperatives.
• The right funders support, not control. A super funder is someone you can call in a crisis, without fear of judgment.

Our favourite quotes from this episode

• ‘Not all money is good money. It was always clear that we always wanted to shift the conversation from food security to nutrition security.’ - Isabel Kamariza
• ‘Food is medicine. It’s not just about filling stomachs, but healing bodies.’ - Isabel Kamariza
• ‘You don't need grand gestures to drive change, you just need to start somewhere, with one person’ - Isabel Kamariza

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