We at Sowing Opportunities realize that life is very difficult throughout Guatemala right now.  People need democracy and are willing to make personal sacrifices to achieve it.  In August, President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his political party, Semilla, won by a landslide victory in Guatemala, with promises to be the anti-corruption president.  He is due to […]

High in the mountains of the Eastern Highlands in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, there are disparate villages with mountains in-between.  In an area of scarce resources, rocky soil, and no tourist commerce, Sowing Opportunities works with 75 families – nearly 500 people – to create greenhouses that now feed them year round. The greenhouses were created […]

  Sowing Opportunities, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, formed in 2018 by Fern and Ginny Remedi-Brown of Malden.  The idea came following the inquiry in 2011 of their then six-year-old daughter, Maya, who was adopted from Guatemala, after she asked to meet her “real mom.”  Fern is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and, […]