God willing, in two days, our team will be heading to the region of Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. And, now we have another matching funds donor! To move us into 2026, we are blessed to have matching funds up to $1,000. Within the next few weeks, we’ll be sending photos and stories of the six […]
Many Opportunities for Sowing Hope (Email 4 of end of year campaign)
December 28, 2025 The students at Fray school in Guatemala are enjoying a very special Christmas present: a harvest grown especially so they will have food during their month-long holiday break. The amazing thing is that the seedlings for these crops were planted only two weeks before Thanksgiving. This is incredible growth, due to the […]
Exciting events for February 2026
We at Sowing Opportunities are really excited for 2026. We have two exciting upcoming events happening in February! First, on February 10, our project manager is traveling to the U.S. and will give a talk on February 15 at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is an incredibly exciting moment, especially given the […]
Widows and the elderly cultivate their greenhouses in Eastern Alta Verapaz
Sowing Opportunities finished a strong year in 2025, with families in four villages and students in two schools in Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala cultivating their greenhouses to provide nutritious meals where they had previously only experienced hunger and poverty. Among the families in the villages are several widows and elderly who, thanks to the collaborative […]
SowingOps’ project manager coming mid-February from Guatemala
Sowing Opportunities’ project manager is coming from Guatemala mid-February. Ricardo is booked to speak at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge on Sunday morning, February 15. If you have a suggested venue for him to speak, please email info@sowingops.org . Ricardo San José Roca has been Sowing Opportunities’ project manager since 2015. He […]
A year of successes, blessing families in Guatemala (Email 3 of end of year campaign)
Schooling the next generation in greenhouse agriculture 2025 was our busiest year to date. Our high-yield greenhouse farming project continues in the Eastern Highlands of Guatemala. We have now trained indigenous families, widows, single mothers, and their children in Chajmaic, Salaguna, Sisbilhá, and La Nueva Libertad (a subdivision of Sisbilhá) in our techniques. Families now […]
Make a difference in Guatemala in a time of increased need (Email 2 of end of year campaign)
You may have heard that USAID has been dismantled. International aid has drastically reduced worldwide, making competition for grant funding yet more intense. That’s why we need your donation even more than ever, to help bring the region out of poverty and to have hope and a direction for their future, with food security. A little bit goes […]
Doing more with less in Guatemala: Help us Cultivate Hope! (Email 1 of Giving Tuesday Campaign 2025)
This year, Sowing Opportunities took a bold step. We introduced a greenhouse agriculture curriculum to a second school – the regional Fray School – enabling us to reach students from about 350 additional households in Guatemala’s remote Eastern Alta Verapaz region. The results have exceeded our expectations – truly cultivating hope. In under six months, […]
12-year-old parishioner influenced to build a family greenhouse
Parishioners of Pastor Selvin Poou church in la Nueva Libertad, a division of the Sisbilhá hamlet, are inspired to build their own greenhouses, aided by the agricultural engineer of Sowing Opportunities. Fernanda is the 12-year-old daughter of Martha Raymundo Pérez, teacher at a village near Fray Bartolomé de las Casas and Jaime Alexander Juarez Catalán […]
The family of Teacher Mirna has their own greenhouses
Both the teacher and the principal of the school in the village of Sisbilhá have their own greenhouses at their homes in the nearby town of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, installed with the help of the Sembrando Oportunidades field team. The teacher, Mirna Suram, is very grateful for what Sembrando Oportunidades has taught her. […]
Selvin Poou, the pastor of Nueva Libertad, participates in growing vegetables
Selvin Poou, along with his wife, Dora Pascual, has been the pastor of a small church in the Nueva Libertad community, a division of the Sisbilhá hamlet, for five years. As a church leader, he supports low-income families and older adults. He is very grateful for having learned the methodology shared with him by the […]
The teacher of Sisbilhá School cares for her students as if she were their mother
Look at this teacher’s dedication to her students, the only teacher at the small Sisbilhá school: Here, you can see Mirna Suram, with the bright pink cap, working together with her students: Mirna Suram, teaches 3rd through 6th grades, motivating her students to develop their skills and challenging them to improve. Teachers in village schools […]