Mileidy Yuliz Caal Chub, estudiante de quinto grado, con 12 años de edad, vive con su abuela materna y su hermana menor de 10 años. Mileidy es una niña de extrema necesidad que fue abandonada por su padre y maltratada por su madre. Ella al ver el proyecto en su escuela Nueva Guadalupe fue […]

“Our Power, Our Planet!”  Sowing Opportunities is taking a positive stand for sustainable agriculture and the protection of the health of the people we serve!  We listen to their needs, teach them about effective actions, and amplify their voices! Caring for the earth is deeply significant to the people in the villages and public primary […]

  On Earth Day, we celebrate our youngest farmers – the students in the public primary schools in Northeast Alta Verapaz, Guatemala – and what they have gained by studying greenhouse curriculum at school: Two students at Escuela Flavio Gutiérrez (Fray Bartolomé) shared their stories about how they feel about what they’re learning. Kevin Samuel […]

In January 2026, Sowing Opportunities’ agricultural work in the six public primary schools began.  Our team has already made two trips to the region – in early February and in early March.  Because we are now servicing four villages and six public primary schools, there will be eight trips in total this year.   In fact, […]

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 […]