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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #172 Vaccibox: Revolutionising Kenya’s Vaccine Storage
Description: Norah Magero, the co-founder of Drop Access talks about her invention the Vaccibox. In Kenya a large majority of the population live in remote rural areas with often limited energy access. The Vaccibox is a solar powered vaccine fridge that allows for the safe transportation and storage of vaccines to remote areas.
In this episode she explains how she got the idea for the Vaccibox, the challenges her and her team went through as they tried to manufacture the Vaccibox locally in Kenya during the pandemic, and the results they have seen since distributing the Vaccibox the...