EPIC is addressing an urgent need, adapting to climate change by promoting ecological farming in Central America and Mexico. Planting an indigenous upland rice, that is both drought-resistant and hurricane-tolerant, is one current strategy to combat serious food-insecurity in these countries.
3.5.23 – A Hopeful Visit in Spring
After more than a year researching, ordering from China, shipping across the sea to Los Angeles, re-shipping to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, we now have rice hullers operating in Axochiapan, Mexico and La Segovia, El Salvador. The process has not been easy but EPIC staff and program partners have shown perseverance.
2.17.23 – Fuel-Saving Stoves
This fuel saving stove has a chimney that takes the smoke out of the kitchen, significantly diminishing lung damage for women who spend hours a day making meals and tortillas for their families. Visiting the Baja Verapaz Program in Guatemala, Paul Mckay and EPIC's new board member Scott Brink saw home and health improvement put together with saving trees.
1.8.23 – Rice Hullers Have Arrived
After more than a year researching, ordering from China, shipping across the sea to Los Angeles, re-shipping to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, we now have rice hullers operating in Axochiapan, Mexico and La Segovia, El Salvador. The process has not been easy but EPIC staff and program partners have shown perseverance.
ADISA – GUATEMALA
When Francisco Sojuel and María Argentina Figueroa’s third child, Nila Eliza, was born with hydrocephalus and later contracted meningitis, they were made aware of the lack of services available for people with disabilities in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. They began to contact other parents with similar needs and organize a support system for children with disabilities.
