Would you like to help our neighbors to have groceries or sustainable agriculture? You can do both through your monetary donations or purchasing a plant for your home or office! Here are our current offerings CONTACT US for availability or donations.               Marie Coulanges with small houseplants, 10/30/2021 Here […]

While our primary focus has been on developing a sustainable agricultural project which includes sending an agricultural engineer who will provide training for building and maintaining a greenhouse – we need to wait until it is safer in terms of Covid transmission before we can do so. So, for now, we are offering a different vision […]

Dear Friends, We are deeply saddened to learn that our key personnel, Alfonso and Lety, in the village of Chajmaic, have contracted Covid.   Due to the extreme Covid outbreak in Guatemala, there are no resources to help them there.  The main supplier of oxygen, Productos del Aire, has stopped production, due to completely saturated […]

Thank you to the City of Malden for their initiative in creating the Malden Summer Festivals.  They were a lot of fun and successful!  Sowing Opportunities gave away plants to the community, made new contacts, and talked about our work in Chajmaic, Guatemala.  Click here for additional information. Thank you to Malden News Network for […]

Chajmaic’s greatest resource is its abundant river, el Río Cahabón.  This river flows for over 120 miles and provides for all the needs of those in the village.  See Sowing Opportunities’ recent Neighborhood View article and our recent newsletter email. However, as in many places in the world where a body of water serves all […]

Sowing Opportunities professional video (English, November 2019)                                 Video profesional de Sembrando Oportunidades (Español, Noviembre 2019)

Sowing Opportunities just concluded its Savers FUNDrive (deadline August 28, 2020).                                             Details are here. Sowing Opportunities held a clothing drive and, thanks to the support of many, we collected over 300 large bags totaling […]

Click here to see Sowing Opportunities video (from the bike-a-thon, 9/15/2018)

In two weeks, Fern will travel to Guatemala to further develop the water project, “Water for Life,” in the rural village, Chajmaic.  The dates of her travel are December 10 through 24, 2018. While there, she plans to establish a Guatemalan bank account, meet with Sowing Opportunities’ associate agricultural engineers, set up a branch nonprofit […]

Help us reach our goal of $5,000 for the new year! New possibilities for the people of Guatemala! 100% of the proceeds from fundraising go to provide potable water to the remote village of Chajmaic, Guatemala. Bike-a-thon in Malden, MA on Saturday, September 15 at 12:00 noon We plan to ride for ~4.2 miles along […]