On November 24, 2024, Fern and Ginny Remedi-Brown were invited to share about Sowing Opportunities at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church’s Mission Moment, during their Sunday Worship Service.  The video and what we talked about are below: My name is Fern Remedi-Brown.  My wife, Ginny, and I live in Malden.  We formed the nonprofit Sowing Opportunities […]

María Elena T’iül Choc gives a cup of macuy soup in Sisbilhá November 26, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Dear friends and family, The mostly women-led indigenous communities in the Eastern Highlands of Guatemala live a subsistence life.   Since 2022, Sowing Opportunities has been providing sustainable greenhouse agriculture so that, rather than being hungry, they are able to […]

Nearly three years ago, Sowing Opportunities started the greenhouse project in the region of Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala where there are few resources.  When we began aiding the village of Chajmaic, Guatemala in 2017, we met with the municipal mayor and in 2018 Chajmaic received a water pump system.  We delivered groceries during the pandemic […]

Give to the Sowing Opportunities, Inc. via the Gifts for Good Upper Cape Cod Alternative Gift Market. An “Alternative Gift” is a donation to a worthy cause made in honor of family member or friend. The market will be held online from November 10-17 at www.alternativegiftmarketcapecod.org, and in person at Saint Barnabas’s Church at 91 […]

Since October 2021, Indigenous Peoples Day has been a U.S. holiday.  We at Sowing Opportunities are proud to say that we celebrate the indigenous peoples every day in the remote villages in the region of Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. To raise funds for our greenhouse projects, we are partnering with A Thread of Hope Guatemala […]

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 […]