Something the agricultural department is doing this year is having handover ceremonies with farmer groups that received ox-ploughs from Emmanuel International in the past. Francis has continued to do ox-plough follow-up visits to monitor.
Ox-ploughs greatly help people in agriculture. Since people don't have tractors, without ox-ploughs, people have to open their large fields by hand using a hoe. Ox-ploughs save a huge amount of labour, increase the area that a family is able to cultivate, and produce income through being rented to open other peoples' fields.
Up until now, the office has retained the right to give the oxen and plough to another group if it was being misused. Now we have seen the groups have managed them well, and wanted to officially transfer full ownership of the ox-ploughs to the groups. And so we've been holding ceremonies to commemorate the transfer, encourage the groups to stand on their own, and sensitize them to the HIV project that is soon starting.