The prototypes from Ghana have arrived. It was like Christmas morning for all of us finding our brown paper and muslin models transformed into useable backpacks. Oh hard work, it was worth it.
Here Ayca, Vanessa, and Evan sport the 3 designs. They are all being tested in Ghana with vendors and children to see if they will sell and if they wlll hold up against the Ghanian elements. The feedback will direct our work toward perfecting a single backpack that will eventually be marketable. The goal is to end road-side traffic injuries with these backpacks because the reflective material on the bags should make children more visible to totos and other moving vehicles at dusk when many children travel to school.
