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Podcast: How We Change the World
Episode: Persistence, Grit and Heart: How Curt Bowen and Semilla Nueva are Changing Lives in Guatemala and Beyond.
Description: When Curt Bowen moved to Guatemala from his native Idaho after graduating college, he planned to stay a month to build a house for a family in need. Thirteen years later he is still working hard in Guatemala and has no plans to leave. In some ways, he’s just hitting his stride.
Curt Bowen is the founder of Semilla Nueva, or New Seed, located in the Central American country of Guatemala. Their mission is straight forward: to reduce poverty by reducing the malnutrition that impacts half the country’s children. Malnutrition is not only the leading caus...