A Shared Mission Driving Lasting Change
The Seeds for a Future program is staffed by local Guatemalans who are part of the community. Their training and expertise as extensionists make them vital community resources, coaching and mentoring families to become self-reliant and build better lives.
Their work creates real and lasting change in communities where many children once faced chronic malnutrition, food insecurity, and families had limited options.
Meet the Seeds Team that's Bringing New Levels of Health, Wellness, and Opportunity to Rural Guatemala
Extensionist Sandra Ixquiactap shares her experience with the Seeds for a Future Program and Team.
Community Resources
Over time, the team has produced numerous detailed and fully-illustrated publications on the program’s methods and strategies, including “Libro de Desarrollo” (Development Book) and “Libro de Los Huertos y Casa Granja” (Gardens and Back-yard Farms). These books are meant to serve as guides and resources for other groups desiring to implement a similar program in their own area.
The Seeds team has also produced dozens of guides and manuals for participants’ home use, such as:
High-Nutrition Recipes: Recipes using the main horticultural crops produced in family nutrition gardens, including how to enhance the nutrition of many popular local dishes.
Medicinal Plants: A practical manual for identifying and using various medicinal plants which grow in the lower altitude regions of the Department of Suchitepequez.
The Functions of Vegetables: Detailed information and illustrations on the food values of plants featured in the family nutrition gardens and how to grow them, as well as information about medicinal plants, basic grains, and meats.
Production of Seeds, Seedlings, and Cuttings: A guide to seed collection and preservation, growing seedlings, and the use of cuttings in specific areas is presented.
Recipes for Nutritious Hot and Cold Beverages: Recipes that use fruits, vegetables, and greens in hot and cold beverages to enhance family nutrition (and replace the empty calories of carbonated soft drinks).
These books and manuals aid the comprehensive onsite training by the extensionists, providing families and communities the tools they need for self-reliance, food security, healthier lives, and increased opportunities.
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