A kind $20,000 donation from the Watkins family added to a donation from Gerber construction allowed Empower Mali to partner with yet another community in Sikasso town to provide a tractor.
The tractor is part of the Perpetual Tractor program. Villages are able to pay off the $25,000 tractors over a period of 5 years and then they own them outright. These communities have implemented large scale farming. They have been able to increase their farmland thereby also increasing yields.