Cold Chain Mission on Solar News

MANILA, Philippines - Ewan McGregor is on a mission to the ends of the earth to immunize some of the hardest-to-reach children in the world. Against the odds, Ewan and his team deliver vaccines to the world’s most remote children as health workers do every day. But their fragile nature means the vaccines must be kept constantly cold as they are passed along the supply chain, from freezer to freezer — wherever that may be. The routes the vaccines travel are known as cold chains, and a vast network of them exists across the globe. In the two-part series, Ewan is following three of the world’s toughest cold chains, supported by UNICEF, who immunize over half of the world’s children.

Ewan said of his experience: “The cold chain routes these vaccines follow can be hugely challenging and adventurous, and I was keen to explore some of them to discover how they reach the world’s most remote children.”

Cold Chain Mission airs on Solar News Channel’s Stories tonight at 8.