Abstract :Empowerment is an activity with aims to making, building and increasing life skill of the community. Hence, empowerment has been focus independent, which looking at the potentiality of the rural community. The means of rural potential, in this topic, it is Desa Gandri. The rural is one of an area in the Penengahan District of East Lampung, which have potential natural resource if looking at from the aspect of land and growing up of the plants. So that, based on the potential in Desa Gandri, this research will describe the community of empowerment program, namely ‘Sedekah Pohon Pisang’ conducted by Karang Taruna. This research uses the qualitative method in character descriptive with recruiting informant through purposive sampling or snowball technique. The results of the study show some of the implementations in the empowerment program, as follows: (1) Karang Taruna survey and record banana trees, (2) Karang Taruna is measured the boundary of plot, (3) Karang Taruna have done cultivate and maintain, and (4) Karang Taruna is a control until harvest. After the harvesting, Karang Taruna market banana to produce money. From the funds including the alms, then established a community empowerment programs with creative economic training. This training activity is conducted to head house and mothers. In addition, the programs which focus on outstanding teenagers is called Remaja Sehat Berprestasi (RSH), making the community with providing the public speaking training.