The journey is long and risky for our team to travel to the remote, indigenous region where Sowing Opportunities has its service area in Eastern Alta Verapaz. Two weeks ago the team visited the villages of Chajmaic, Salaguna, and Sisbilhá, to bring additional seedlings and supplies (fertilizer, insecticide) to the three villages where we are working […]

Jeremías García Coy lives with his wife, Marta Molina Choc, in the hamlet of Salaguna, Guatemala.  Jeremías, having worked outside the village since he was 12 years old, learned Spanish through his work; school was not offered when he was a young boy.  Jeremías and Marta married when they were 21 and have an 11-year-old […]

When our team arrived in Salaguna, Guatemala in January 2023, we had determined that we had the budget to work collaboratively with 30 new families in this second village.  To our team’s surprise, in this destitute village where most of the families are led by women, 15 additional women with their babies in tow approached […]

  Dominga Ché Yaxcal is a midwife for the community of Sisbilhá. Not only is she a midwife, she is always available to people in need, especially when they are downhearted and alone. She feels her community to be her family. She leads by example, making her a true leader. An example of her support […]

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday, which we observe on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala endured an internal unarmed struggle, called by some a “civil war,” and by others, “the Mayan genocide,” in which 200,000 mostly indigenous Maya people were murdered […]

– Where in the world is Guatemala? Guatemala is one of 7 countries in Central America, which is part of North America consisting of a tapering isthmus running from the southern extent of Mexico to the northwestern portion of South America. – What country is directly to the west of Guatemala?  Can you name the ocean […]

Abbreviated Version of Questions:  Where in the world is Guatemala and what is one country that borders Guatemala? See Basic Information about Guatemala and its Indigenous Population  How many Mayan indigenous languages are spoken today in Guatemala?              Multiple choice: 0, 22, 43, or 175 See Basic Information about Guatemala […]

Sowing Opportunities has multiple opportunities for you to come out and not only support our mission of building agricultural capacity, resources, and leadership for indigenous families in villages in a remote area of Guatemala – but also supporting indigenous artisans in Guatemala through the purchase of beautiful fair trade handicrafts! These are Sowing Opportunities’ upcoming […]

Sisbilhá, Guatemala: A one-month retrospective, April 2024 It’s been a little over a month since returning back to Boston from visiting the remote, indigenous village of Sisbilhá, in the Guatemalan Highlands – the third village that Sowing Opportunities has supported in the region. What was remarkable was the resilience of this mostly women-led community, how […]

 

On Earth Day, we celebrate the successes that the people in the villages in Eastern Alta Verapaz are experiencing since January 2022.   In each of the villages where Sowing Opportunities’ team has collaborated with the people to help them to develop their skills in agricultural production and leadership development, they have followed a similar path. […]