VeloMed plastic mesh helps volunteers transport seven times as many medicine boxes



Industrial design graduate Gwen Gage’s has created a plastic mesh that connect medication boxes together to allow easier delivery of malaria medicine in remote sub-Saharan African villages.

Gage developed the roll of plastic mesh, called VeloMed, to fit over boxes of medication that are then rolled to secure the units together so that many boxes can be transported together.

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