Did you know that an estimated 16 percent of the world's population - 1.3 billion people - have little or no access to electricity?

In 2011, the United Nations launched an initiative known as the Sustainable Energy for All that later set an ambitious goal of ensuring universal access to electricity by 2030. How are they doing? Not so well. In a nutshell, access to electricity is growing at a much slower rate than the growth rate of our world population. To make matters even more complicated, the UN doesn't want to stop there. It's also trying to tackle climate change at the same time by improving energy efficiency and clean energy efforts. A dual-strategy effort that the IEA and World Bank have estimated would cost nearly double or triple than what the world is currently spending to successfully achieve.

The bottom line - Governments are not be able to scale to meet the demands and address the problems of world citizens on their own.

And that's exactly why in 2012, Luci®, an inflatable solar light, was created with the goal of making an affordable clean energy product that people could use in any situation - be it at home, camping, backpacking, while also solving real-world problems for people in developing countries.

Today, Luci® lights have impacted over 2.6 million lives in over 90+ countries, and continue making a global impact all over the world, including Africa, North America, Central America, South America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Australia & the Pacific.

With every Luci purchase, you have the opportunity to light up a life and positively impact the world in the following areas:

• Allows children in developing countries to study and play after dark.

• Artists, makers, Entrepreneurs and craftsmen and women have more hours to be productive and grow their businesses

• Less CO2 released in the atmosphere

• Health clinics stay open later

• Families save more money and are more safe replacing kerosene with solar powered electricity