# Dear Malawi

- Link: https://perfectnations.org/dear-malawi/
- Published: 2026-10-31T00:43:24-04:00
- Author: Preeti Sinha

[The Malawi blueprint](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/malawi/)

Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsMalawi

# Dear Malawi,

You share your country with one of the great lakes of the world. Lake Malawi is 
home to more than 350 species of mbuna, the rock-dwelling cichlid fish, and all 
but five are found nowhere else; UNESCO inscribed the national park on the World
Heritage List in 1984. Eight in ten units of the electricity you generate come from
renewable sources, most of them from the Shire River.

Much of the finance is already pointed at these gaps. The World Bank is financing
electricity access, the Shire Valley Transformation Program for irrigation, education
reform, water and sanitation, and social support for resilient livelihoods. In December
2023 it approved a budget support loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option,
finance that can be drawn the moment a disaster strikes. That is an instrument built
for a nation that floods and dries in turn.

The work ahead is plain, and it is worth saying plainly. Only two in every hundred
of you cook with clean fuel. Only eighteen in every hundred of you drink safely 
managed water at home. Eighty-two in every hundred of you cannot always count on
enough good food. Clean energy sets your Coverage today, at 2 out of 100, with water
and food close behind. Each of them is within your reach.

The next step is to connect the clean power you make to the homes and schools that
lack it, and to measure every operation by the household it reaches.

Now imagine that same resolve turned toward every home in the country. Picture Perfect
Malawi: 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 Malawian falls below a decent life, because
the nation has decided that none will.

> “The lake gives you life in abundance. Let it light and feed every home.”

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

Yours in design,

**Preeti Sinha**

President and CEO, Perfect Nations

Sources: [World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=XX)·
[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=XX)·
[FAO, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=XX) · 
[World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/country/mw)

 [Enter the Design Studio](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/malawi/#bp-studio)
[Read the Malawi blueprint](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/malawi/)