Dear Rwanda,

The sun on your flag stands for enlightenment, the blue for happiness and peace, the yellow for economic development and the green for the hope of prosperity. From the hardest of beginnings you have built one of the most purposeful states in Africa.

Think of what you have already built. You are a nation of 14.6 million people on a little under 24,000 square kilometres of hills, and three-quarters of that land is farmed. In 2025 visitors brought you $685 million, and investors registered $2.62 billion across 799 projects. You were among the first nations anywhere to draw on the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Facility, and you completed it in full. In June 2026 the IMF approved a new $250 million credit facility.

At home the record is just as real. Essential health care scores 59 out of 100 on the World Health Organization index, and nearly six in ten of you now live above $3.00 a day. The World Bank is financing clean energy and clean cooking, skills for young people and the fight against stunting. You have learned to make a small country legible to the world.

The work ahead is plain, and it is worth saying plainly. Only nine in every hundred of you cook with clean fuel. Only forty-eight in every hundred of your young people complete lower secondary school. Essential health care scores 59 out of 100 on the World Health Organization index. Clean energy sets your Coverage today, at 9 out of 100, with reading and health care close behind. Each of them is within your reach.

Now imagine that same resolve turned toward every home in the country. Picture Perfect Rwanda: 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 Rwandan 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: your hills, your forest, your parks, a state that investors can read, and your young people. They are assets no balance sheet counts, and together they can carry every Rwandan to food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and a livelihood.

“You made a small country legible to investors. Now make a decent life just as certain for every citizen.”

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