Guatemalan School Gardens:
This is one of our most popular Seeds of Help activities. The Guatemalan children work with our staff in making compost, working the soil, planting the seeds, weeding and maintaining the crops, making and applying organic fertilizer and pesticides, harvesting, and preparing food—all done at their Guatemalan schools. Creating these school gardens introduces...
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Guatemalan Non profit create and teach School Gardens
Guatemalan Non Profit teaches Children how to make school gardens out of recycled tires
Recycled Tire Gardens in Guatemala:
One of Seeds of Help’s recent projects is using recycled tires found as garbage all over Guatemala to make small movable gardens. This is a great way to get younger kids to participate in the garden projects. It introduces the Guatemalan children to new produce and teaches them to utilize a...
Volunteer in Guatemala: Valerie’s thoughts on week 2
I can’t say these last couple of weeks have been more of the same…no one day here is ever like the next. At first I saw this as frustrating and unstructured; now it makes me feel free. Two weekends ago I ventured to Panajachel; my “charter bus” driver dropped me off at a major freeway...
Volunteer trip to Guatemala
Late February 2010, Seeds President, Walter Able left Columbus, Indiana for his semi-annual visit for Seeds of Help. On the trip he met up with our new volunteer Val who will be living with Brenda for 5 weeks.. She will be hosting a guest blog in the coming weeks within the...
Volunteers in Guatemala with Seeds of Help
Through the years we’ve had so many stellar volunteers and peace corp volunteers who have devoted weeks, months, even years helping the Mayan people in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
Below are some photos of our volunteers both peace corps and regular. If you’d like to volunteer with Seeds of Help please contact us at info@seedsofhelp.org Generally a basic...
Voluntourism Trip Guatemala Sept-October 2010
Seeds of Help is planning a humanitarian volunteer trip late September/Early October 2010. We will be building a water tank, shower as well as working with the children at Seeds of Help’s preschool. Also festivities will take place on Dia de Los Ninos (October 1) which is a country wide celebration for the kids. Pinatas...
Dia De Los Ninos | Guatemala Kids Day in Huehuetenango
October 1, 2009 – Walter Able, President Seeds of Help Foundation, Inc
Interesting day. Today Guatemala celebrated Dia del Nino (Kids day) and I got to spend it with the community of Los Cuchumatanes. This is the second year we have had our preschool class in this school. We took bags full ...
Yoga Now in Columbus, Indiana for Seeds of Help
Here are some photos from last week’s Yoga Now in Columbus, Indiana for Seeds of Help benefiting Florentina’s school scholarship. Huge thanks to the ladies of Yoga Now in Columbus, Indiaan (www.yoganowcolumbus.com) as they provided stellar yoga for adults and children that fine fall morning. Also another huge thanks to Jarvis Cooper at Faith Ministries...
Seeds of Help Guatemalan Scholarship:::Florentina Simon Perez
Florentina Simon Perez is a lovely and bright 16 year old Mayan girl. She has received a Seeds of Help scholarship since 2007. Before we met her, young Florentina was working as a maid to try to earn money to pay for her schooling. Even though she makes her own clothes, she was unable to...
Volunteers in Guatemala::: Visit to the Cumbre
Carolyn, a former peace corp volunteer in Guatemala, John, and Neto of JJBean Coffee, traveled throughout Guatemala in late June. They wanted to visit Seeds of Help in Huehuetenango, Guatemala and we were happy to show them around. Brenda, our head of operations in Guatemala, Will, and Cat, peace corp volunteers with Seeds of Help,...