Sowing Opportunities seeks to cultivate self-sustainability, education, and wellness in rural Guatemala — one village at a time.
We provide the tools for indigenous families in remote Guatemala to have safety and food security in their communities.
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2025 was Sowing Opportunities’ most engaged year ever! Since we began in 2022 providing greenhouse agriculture in the remote, indigenous highlands of Eastern Alta Verapaz, we have added one village each year. Now we are now working with four villages!
And this year, we also added two schools! Working with schools allows us to reach more families, as the students teach their parents what they’ve learned. They are not only learning a trade. They also have regular school lunches.
In 2026, we are planning to add four additional schools, to increase the number of families served in the region.
Since 2022, Sowing Opportunities has been collaboratively building agricultural capacity, resources, leadership, and economic development for indigenous families in villages in this area which has no resources, tourism or any other NGO. In 2024, we are working with the three villages of Chajmaic, Salaguna, and Sisbilhá, over 100 families – approximately 500 people.
Watch Sowing Opportunities’ 2.5-minute video of its 2023 Annual Report to know its achievements in 2023 and plans for 2024.
Sowing Opportunities Innovative Solutions Campaign, which started in 2022, has mapped out a 3-Phase plan to create Sustainability, and help reduce Poverty and Malnutrition in the Eastern Highlands of Guatemala.
We are beginning with a third village in January 2024.
August 8, 2026 We want to share with you some beautiful photos from August 3, 2026: First, these are photos of the second harvest at our 6th school – the convent boarding school for girls without families to care for them, Escuela Ratz’ Um K’iche, Boloncó, Northeast Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Here, they had nothing, and
August 1, 2026 This is at the Flavio Gutiérrez school in Fray. As you can see, a crucial detail here is that the flooding the school experienced did not affect their crops, thanks to their elevation. Our planting method never involves the ground; instead, it uses greenhouses positioned about 3’ above the ground. This provides
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Elvira Chub Chub and her harvest, April 2023
Ricardo San José,
May 2015
Sowing Opportunities Project Manager
