Sowing Opportunities seeks to cultivate self-sustainability, education, and wellness in rural Guatemala — one village at a time.
We provide the tools for indigenous families in remote Guatemala to have safety and food security in their communities.
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Since 2022, Sowing Opportunities has been collaboratively building agricultural capacity, resources, leadership, and economic development for indigenous families in villages in this area which has no resources, tourism or any other NGO. In 2024, we are working with the three villages of Chajmaic, Salaguna, and Sisbilhá, over 100 families – approximately 500 people.
Watch Sowing Opportunities’ 2.5-minute video of its 2023 Annual Report to know its achievements in 2023 and plans for 2024.
Sowing Opportunities Innovative Solutions Campaign, which started in 2022, has mapped out a 3-Phase plan to create Sustainability, and help reduce Poverty and Malnutrition in the Eastern Highlands of Guatemala.
We are beginning with a third village in January 2024.
Both the teacher and the principal of the school in the village of Sisbilhá have their own greenhouses at their homes in the nearby town of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, installed with the help of the Sembrando Oportunidades field team. The teacher, Mirna Suram, is very grateful for what Sembrando Oportunidades has taught her.
Selvin Poou, along with his wife, Dora Pascual, has been the pastor of a small church in the Nueva Libertad community, a division of the Sisbilhá hamlet, for five years. As a church leader, he supports low-income families and older adults. He is very grateful for having learned the methodology shared with him by the
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Elvira Chub Chub and her harvest, April 2023
Ricardo San José,
May 2015
Sowing Opportunities Project Manager
