Projects

• Sustainable Organic Agriculture
  Guatemala – Improved agricultural practices have tripled yields for poor hillside farmers, while retaining and replenishing the soil on their steep farms.

• Primary Health Care Program
  Guatemala – Community-based health education is serving remote villages of Baja Verapaz.

• Maya Foundation Builds Indigenous Leadership
  Guatemala – Fundación Agri-Cultura Marcos Orozco is a Maya, grassroots organization dedicated to preserving Guatemala's environmental and cultural resources.

• Preschool for Low Income Families
  Mexico – Good Earth Educational Center provides a preschool, after-school tutoring and community services for families living along old railroad tracks in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

• Vocational Education & Job Creation
  Honduras – La Semilla de Progreso is providing youth from rural communities agricultural vocational education and giving them a vision of “farmer” as an economically viable vocation.

• Scholarships for Maya Children
  Guatemala – In a remote rural area children are enabled to attend middle school for the first time.

• Agricultural and Vocational Training Center
  Honduras – Loma Linda Training Center is reestablished with new facilities to serve as a training center for sustainable agriculture and human development.

• Training Health Care Workers
  Benin, West Africa – Educational materials are provided for the training of primary health care workers for rural villages.

• Leadership Training with Societal Outcasts
  Peru – Youth and adults involved with drugs, alcohol, and crime are often the most difficult to help.

Environmental Protection

• Protecting the Rio Motagua Watershed
  Guatemala – Massive erosion is carrying tons of fertile soil into the Rio Motagua, the most important river of Guatemala.

• Soil and Water Management
  Honduras – Farmers are using new soil and water management practices to mitigate the effects of either hurricane rains or drought conditions.

• Gilbert White Biography
  U.S.A. – Boulder, Colorado – Geographer Gilbert White is the globally recognized father of the interdisciplinary study of the interface between natural hazards and human actions, particularly with respect to water.

• Addressing Childrens' Needs
  Indonesia – Following a disastrous earthquake of May 27, 2006, the Asian tsunami of December 2004, and threatened volcanic eruptions there was a great need to address the trama and insecurity children of the island of Java were experiencing.

• Creation of a Maya Cultural Center
  Guatemala – The center will explain the contributions of the Maya and encourage discussion of the cultural and environmental choices confronting Mayas today.

• Working to Eradicate Slavery
  United States – Although slavery has existed for thousands of years, there is a resurgence of slavery today. EPIC partners with Free the Slaves.

• Resisting Weapons of Mass Destruction
  U.S.A. – Boulder, Colorado – The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center is educating Coloradans and organizing resistance to the 49 nuclear missiles ready to be launched from Colorado.

• Conference for Peacemakers
  U.S.A. – Denver, Colorado – Promoting non-violence, "Ending the Silence" was a 2-day conference on finding a just peace in Palestine and Israel.