MCC Lottery electricity customer financing scheme

U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Alfonso E. Lenhardt (right) witnessing Chief Executive Officer of the Millenium Challenge Account - Tanzania (MCA-Tanzania) Bernard Mchomvu (right) picking one of a winning numbers in a public lottery to randomly select 30 communities in seven regions of Tanzania -  Dodoma, Iringa, Mbeya, Morogoro, Mwanza, Tanga, and Kigoma - to benefit from Electricity Customer Financing Scheme at MCA-Tanzania offices in Dar es Salaam on July 16, 2012. Under the scheme to be implemented as part of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) funded Power Transmission and Distribution Project, households in the selected communities will only pay Tshs 80,000 instead of Tsh 460,000 for a single-phase power connection.  This is yet another effort by MCC and MCA-Tanzania to improve the livelihood of low income Tanzanians.