2 Tractor donations in Garalo

As part of the Food Security Initiative, Empower Mali partnered with a private investor and also the Watkins family to donate two tractors to the villages of San and Garalo. The Empower Mali tractors food security initiative will allow farmers to modernize their business and help increase production of staples like cotton, sorghum, millet, maize, […]

Micah Shea Watkins Academy in Dongorona

In 2015, the Watkins Family of Alpine, Utah donated $60,000.00 to build a fully equipped 3-classroom middle school, administration building and 6 latrines in the village of Dongorona, Mali. Due to a lack of a middle school middle school aged children would travel 3-7 miles, 4 times a day to attend school in the neighboring […]

Eloise DeJoria Academy in Katele

We are grateful for a kind $30,000 donation from the DeJoria family, $16,000 from the Peery Family and $4000 from individual donors to build a 3-classroom middle school in the rural village of Katele. In this village, only a primary school was built by the government, so many children, especially girls, would drop out of […]

Electric Playground in Ferekoroba

We partnered with Building Youth Around the World to install an electricity generating playground in the village of Ferekoroba. The electricity generated by the playground will be used to light up the school. As part of the project, there were also 40 solar lanterns given to the middle school so students can study at night.