Sowing Opportunities seeks to cultivate self-sustainability, education, and wellness in rural Guatemala.
GOALS:
Self-sustainability
Training before planting
Train the trainer
Find solutions for irrigation and potable water
Village to remain in ownership by the residents and be maintained fully by them
VISION:
We seek to help remote, destitute villages in Guatemala to become self-sustaining, but first they must have access to clean water and food so that they can think of options.
1.Set up a system to access water for the village, with 3 milestones: water accessibility, water filtration, water hygiene education
2. Set up a greenhouse farming workshop and teach a team how to continue this work and why it’s important
3. Teach the people to plant non-native vegetables to feed themselves, on their land, and to sell the vegetables to the other villages
PLAN:
Approach problems with a situational mindset: custom approach
FIVE CORE VALUES (long-term):
1. Doing peace and justice work
2. Creating equity
A commitment to lessening inequalities and oppressive disparities.
How: using our resources of strength to provide tools for people to empower themselves.
3. Respecting life
The dignity of human life: an injury to one individual is an injury to all.
4. Empowering one another
Connecting cultures and resources from a 1st world community to a 3rd world community.
How: Listen to understand needs so as not to impose values.
5. Community cultivation
How: Residents become involved in active learning and teaching.
Sowing Opportunities is a 501(c)(3), as of March 14, 2018, EIN #81-3388386
On May 7, 2018 Sowing Opportunities earned the GuideStar Gold Seal of Transparency https://www.guidestar.org/profile/81-3388386