Dear Ecuador,

Yellow, blue and red, with the condor and Chimborazo on your arms. Ninety-five in every hundred of you cook with clean fuel, and four-fifths of your energy comes from renewable sources.

Think of what you have already built. Your IMF programme of about $5 billion had disbursed $3.7 billion by April 2026. In 2026 the World Bank approved $750 million for reforms that promote investment and jobs, and $800 million to finance infrastructure for local governments through your development bank.

At home the record is just as real. Ninety-five in every hundred of you cook with clean fuel. Essential health care scores 78 out of 100 on the World Health Organization index. Seventy in every hundred of you live above $8.30 a day.

The work ahead is plain, and it is worth saying plainly. At the last count, in 2019, sixty-six in every hundred of your children reached the end of primary school unable to read a simple text. Only forty-nine in every hundred of you have a safely managed toilet at home. Thirty-one in every hundred of you cannot always count on enough good food. Reading sets your Coverage today, at 34.1 out of 100, with shelter and food close behind. Each of them is within your reach.

Now imagine that same resolve turned toward every home in the country. Picture Perfect Ecuador: a morning when every family cooks with clean fuel and sits down to a full table; when every tap runs clean and every home has a safe toilet; when every child walks to a school where a teacher is waiting, and reads with ease by the age of ten; when every mother lives within reach of a clinic with the lights on, and every young person finds work that pays. And no Ecuadorian falls below a decent life, because the nation has decided that none will.

None of this needs a miracle. It needs what you already own: the Amazon, the Andes, the Galapagos, your rivers that already power the nation, and your farms that feed the world bananas and shrimp. They are assets no balance sheet counts, and together they can carry every Ecuadorian to food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and a livelihood.

“Your rivers already power the nation. Now let them power every Ecuadorian child to a confident reader.”

So this is an invitation. Bring your vision, your story and your solutions to the Perfect Ecuador Design Studio, and join the Co-designers who are already imagining what comes next. Perfect Ecuador will not be designed for you. It will be designed by you.