# Dear Tanzania

- Link: https://perfectnations.org/dear-tanzania/
- Published: 2026-10-31T01:00:04-04:00
- Author: Preeti Sinha

[The Tanzania blueprint](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/tanzania/)

Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsTanzania

# Dear Tanzania,

You have just built one of the largest power stations in Africa. In April 2025 all
nine turbines at the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station on the Rufiji were running,
with a capacity of 2,115 megawatts. Half your land is forest. You hold Kilimanjaro,
the Serengeti and a long Indian Ocean coast, and you are home to 70.5 million people.

Your World Bank programme is among the largest in Africa: a $750 million development
policy financing, a productive social safety net, the Tanzania-Zambia transmission
interconnector, rural water and sanitation paid on results, a programme to boost
primary learning, rural electrification and food systems resilience. The instruments
are aimed at the right guarantees.

The work ahead is plain, and it is worth saying plainly. Only eleven in every hundred
of you cook with clean fuel. Only twenty-eight in every hundred of you have a safely
managed toilet at home. Seventy in every hundred of you lived below $4.20 a day 
at the last count, in 2018. Clean energy sets your Coverage today, at 11 out of 
100, with shelter and income close behind. Each of them is within your reach.

The station on the Rufiji is the hardest part. The wires, meters and connections
that carry its power to a clinic, a pump and a classroom are smaller, cheaper and
quicker to build, and every one of them can be counted.

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

> “You built the power station. Now build the last mile to every home.”

So this is an invitation. Bring your vision, your story and your solutions to the
Perfect Tanzania Design Studio, and join the Co-designers who are already imagining
what comes next. Perfect Tanzania 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.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=XX)·
[World Bank, 2018](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.LMIC?locations=XX)·
[World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/country/tz)

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