Impact Spotlight
Delivered 366 workshops in agroecology, ancestral medicine, and sustainable construction since 2023, reaching 6,200+ participants
Installed a 4.84kW off-grid solar system powering classrooms, workshop spaces, and a community kitchen
Reduced firewood dependence, planted 2,400+ trees, and restored 2.5 hectares in the Maya Biosphere buffer zone
About
Sol y Verde restores ecosystems, strengthens cultural knowledge, and builds climate resilience through regenerative education and ancestral land practices.
Their work centres the leadership of women, youth, and displaced families in one of the most climate-vulnerable regions of Central America, where access to clean energy, education, and economic opportunity is severely limited. By co-designing their infrastructure and programming with the community, Sol y Verde builds ecological stewardship led by the people most impacted by climate and energy injustice, and is becoming the first center of its kind in the region.
“Being able to provide a dignified, creative, and inspiring space of learning and community for our people doesn’t just mean we can demonstrate the power of clean and regenerative infrastructure, but we can actually make it accessible and replicable. This will be the first center of its kind in our entire region, but our dream is that it will not be the last.”
HF Partnership
Since September 2025, Sol y Verde has installed a full 4.84kW off-grid lithium solar system, expanded and electrified their community kitchen, and begun the design phase of their Ecological Laboratory: a kitchen-laboratory, library, and seed bank that will become the hub for their ancestral medicine and education programmes.
In the first six months following electrification, Sol y Verde delivered 68 workshops with over 710 participants across their two weekly programmes: Salud Verde (women's ancestral medicine and holistic wellbeing) and Jóvenes Conservacionistas (youth conservation and ecological training). Sol y Verde also created multiple internship opportunities for agronomy students at the University of San Carlos (USAC). The new and expanded solar system has enabled increased safety, evening programming, technical workshops using medical equipment, power tools, and medicinal product-making at a scale previously impossible without electricity.
Through an expanded multiyear partnership with the Honnold Foundation, Sol y Verde will move into a new phase of expansion. They will strengthen their governance and institutional networks, expand their team, invest in water and energy resilience, complete their community centre, and build the organisational infrastructure needed to scale their model across Petén.
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