My wife and I have been serving as donors to Sowing Seeds for the Future Foundation for a number of years. We choose to do so because we have seen that the results of our donations go directly to helping the residents of Choco. These are people who need help, and the evidence is clearly shown on the SSFF website. When you donate to SSFF, you can see how your financial assistance is helping to make someone's life better.
Seeing Sowing Seeds for the Future come to life and help the kids in Colombia has been beautiful! I've seen the team work so hard with such passion to make sure the children in Choco receive quality nutrition and developmental activities to help set them on the right track for the future. I'd love to go meet the kids one day and hear the stories of how this non-profit has impacted their lives. It's hard work, and so worth it!
This organization does great work helping the children is Columbia. I wouldn’t volunteer as a board member if it weren’t getting help directly to the families in need.
In 2012, when I was 80 years old, I was hospitalized with an unknown illness, and very weak. I almost didn't make it. However, after 12 days, I left the hospital and came across news on the radio from Colombia, South America, that children from 5-10 years old were dying because of hunger in Choco, Colombia. Choco is next to Panama, in the Northwest area of Colombia. After hearing the news, a new mission opened up for me and the need to keep on living, to do something about it. My daughter Claudia who has a nonprofit organization to advocate for children in Colombia was looking for a new project, so we started talking about how to help the children in the Country where we lived for many years. The Sowing Seeds for the Future (SS4F) in Stillwater, MN started making contacts and found out that 15,000 children have chronic malnutrition in this department of Colombia. The SS4F contacted the Fundacion Marajuera, where a young woman: Johanna helps the children who are living in extreme poverty. Working with Johanna, the SS4F applied for a grant to start a bakery to teach children baking skills, and feed them. Also, soccer teams were organized to get children involved in sports to keep them away from the dangers of the street, such as drugs, violence and crime. Currently, one of the volunteers, is doing a barefoot journey over the Pacific Crest Trail, to create awareness about the extreme poverty of the children in Choco, where many of them go barefoot, due to lack of funds to buy shoes. The SS4F knows that there is much to do in Choco, and these are only seeds that they are planting to teach the kids to come out of the helplessness of poverty and be empowered to have a fruitful future. The SS4F is a perfect example of how we can all do something to help our brothers and sisters who need some impulse to get ahead.
The Sowing Seeds for the Future (SS4F) started in 2001, and its Mission is to: "Advocate for the health, education and dignity of children and families at risk in Colombia, South America". Currently, the SS4F is working in Chocó, Colombia, where 73% of the children have malnutrition and anemia. The SS4F is planning on start a food bank to provide a balanced nutrition and improve the health of the children. Also, the SS4F, has worked with the midwives of Chocó, sending them Clean Birth kits and backpacks to deliver babies in rural and jungle areas of Chocó. Students from Stillwater Highschool, donated backpacks and volunteers from the Woodbury Life Center in Minnesota have donated the kits. Children in Choco are happy to know that someone in the world cares about them. Join us in this special mission.
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