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Number 89 on the 2024 list
Isabelle Kamariza is a founder from Rwanda, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for being named a Cartier Women's Initiative Fellow for Solid'Africa's meals for hospital patients.
Isabelle Kamariza, founder of Solid'Africa, was named a 2024 Fellow of the Cartier Women's Initiative for Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. Solid'Africa cooks nutritious meals for patients in Rwanda's public hospitals: Cartier reports 9,000 meals a day, more than six million since it began, and 1,500 patients fed daily across five hospitals. She founded it after returning to Rwanda from her studies in Belgium.