Dear family and friends, The Jewish High Holy Days season begins this year on Saturday evening, September 28 with a service called S’lichot, asking for forgiveness from God. The evening of October 2, 2024 begins the Jewish New Year – in Hebrew, Rosh HaShanah. As we turn at this time to creating things anew, we at Sowing Opportunities turn […]

The family of Magdalena Paiz is one of the best workers in the community. As you can see, she understood what she was taught by Sowing Opportunities and is putting into practice the methodology with which she has improved her family’s diet and she sells the surplus with which she obtains economic benefit…!!! We are […]

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 […]

– What does food security mean? See Feeding the Hungry During a Pandemic – How can contaminated water affect someone’s health? See Water for Life Project   – Why might people not be able to grow directly in the ground and how can greenhouses allow plants to grow when they can’t grow directly in the ground? […]

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 […]