SunNight Solar, the firm which operates the BoGo program, and manufactures the world's first internationally distributed solar powered flashlight, was started by Mark Bent in 2006. Mark served as part of the American Diplomatic Corps in a number of counties - Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, South Africa, Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Iraq, Bosnia, Tunisia to name a few. He has personally seen how lighting impacts development and overall quality of life in different solidities around the globe. Among other awards, Mark was named one of the top CEO's of "Green Firms" 2007 by the online environmental site and Rice University named SunNight Solar as one the best new emerging energy technology companies in 2006. The New York Times has published an article about the BoGo program and Mark's efforts and then his work and approach was subsequently singled out on the NY Times editorial pages in an article entitled "Lighting the Way". There have also been articles in Readers Digest, Newsweek, Metropolitan Home, the Dallas Morning News, the Times of India and a number of other internationally distributed media outlets and non-US countries. Fox News ran a segment about the BoGo program, Living on Earth, heard on National Public Radio has done a story, the Voice of America has published an article and distributed a video, Mark has been interviewed by BBC radio, the Pacifica Radio Network and has been heard on a number of other radio stations around the US. The company is headquartered in Houston and is registered as a limited liability corporation in the State of Texas. We have international distributors in a number of countries - Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia at present and are set to expand our commercial network in the very near future. Our partners and customers include the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, (UNHCR), the United Nations, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank group, the US Department of State, the US Department of Defense, the US Agency for International Development, the ExxonMobil Corporation, Chevron, Schlumberger, African Wildlife Foundation, Samaritan�s Purse, Direct Relief International, Africa Inland Missions, Engineers Without Borders, World Vision, Global Giving and many other leading companies, Universities and non-profit corporations. Additionally, the Rockefeller Foundation has supplied grant funding, NASA, via the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program has provided no cost engineering support, Rensselear Polytechnic is the only university in the US to offer a Masters degree in Lighting provided additional technical support and detailed product review, Columbia University, via the work of Jeffery Sachs and the UN Millennium Project have conducted extensive field studies of our products, Department of Energy senior scientists and engineers from Lawrence Livermore Laboratories at the California at Berkeley, via the Lumina Project, a World Bank Lighting Africa financed effort, have also conducted extensive field tests of our products. We also have a number of other new products under development - a fixed place solar powered room illumination system consisting of a two watt solar panel, a rechargeable battery pack and four LED light bulbs, two versions of solar powered LED lanterns, a solar powered mobile phone charger, solar powered UV water treatment units and with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, we are exploring the design and engineering of a device which negatively impacts the mosquitoes which carry malaria - either we kill them, repel them or make them sterile. We thank you very much for your patronage and support.
