Dear friends and family, Sowing Opportunities’ Project Manager returned from the region on March 14.  He sent photos in which he was beaming with pride, standing with the students, and in the greenhouses that they built with Sowing Opportunities’ guidance. Here, you can see the students at the greenhouses, listening to the Project Manager: Here, […]

Dear friends and family, On International Women’s Day, we honor the women who are dedicated to working hard to support their families, against all odds.  We recognize the women in Northeastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, in the region we serve, who learn everything they can so that they can not only feed their families, but also […]

We at Sowing Opportunities are bursting with excitement at the successes of the week ending February 15! Our project manager, Ricardo San José Roca, visited the Boston, Massachusetts area from Antigua, Guatemala for just five days, but for what was achieved, it felt like much more. During this visit, Ricardo met with Board members and […]

February 11, 2026 In the words of Sowing Opportunities’ project manager, “With the help of God, our BELOVED, we are going all out to reach the goal of another year of excellence.” On January 31, our team members traveled to the remote region of Eastern Alta Verapaz to begin our project for 2026, launching greenhouse […]

God willing, in two days, our team will be heading to the region of Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. And, now we have another matching funds donor! To move us into 2026, we are blessed to have matching funds up to $1,000.   Within the next few weeks, we’ll be sending photos and stories of the six […]

December 28, 2025 The students at Fray school in Guatemala are enjoying a very special Christmas present: a harvest grown especially so they will have food during their month-long holiday break. The amazing thing is that the seedlings for these crops were planted only two weeks before Thanksgiving. This is incredible growth, due to the […]

We at Sowing Opportunities are really excited for 2026.  We have two exciting upcoming events happening in February! First, on February 10, our project manager is traveling to the U.S. and will give a talk on February 15 at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  This is an incredibly exciting moment, especially given the […]

Sowing Opportunities finished a strong year in 2025, with families in four villages and students in two schools in Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala cultivating their greenhouses to provide nutritious meals where they had previously only experienced hunger and poverty. Among the families in the villages are several widows and elderly who, thanks to the collaborative […]

  Sowing Opportunities’ project manager is coming from Guatemala mid-February.  Ricardo is booked to speak at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge on Sunday morning, February 15.   If you have a suggested venue for him to speak, please email info@sowingops.org .     Ricardo San José Roca has been Sowing Opportunities’ project manager since 2015.  He […]

Schooling the next generation in greenhouse agriculture 2025 was our busiest year to date. Our high-yield greenhouse farming project continues in the Eastern Highlands of Guatemala.  We have now trained indigenous families, widows, single mothers, and their children in Chajmaic, Salaguna, Sisbilhá, and La Nueva Libertad (a subdivision of Sisbilhá) in our techniques. Families now […]

You may have heard that USAID has been dismantled. International aid has drastically reduced worldwide, making competition for grant funding yet more intense.  That’s why we need your donation even more than ever, to help bring the region out of poverty and to have hope and a direction for their future, with food security. A little bit goes […]

This year, Sowing Opportunities took a bold step. We introduced a greenhouse agriculture curriculum to a second school – the regional Fray School – enabling us to reach students from about 350 additional households in Guatemala’s remote Eastern Alta Verapaz region.  The results have exceeded our expectations – truly cultivating hope. In under six months, […]