Our projects

We work with, not for, the people who benefit from our projects.

Since 2002 Epilogos Charities has been involved with rural community development, with all projects initiated and implemented with Salvadoran collaboration and partnership. Project recipients contribute at least 30% of the project cost through manual labor or financial contributions. We work in tandem with our Salvadoran partners, a nationally certified community development agency. We include the beneficiaries in all stages of the projects.

Epilogos has a community development strategy that is built for long-term success. Things are not given away – they are worked for, exchanged, or bought for low prices. Outright charity is unproductive for several reasons. It is humiliating to those who receive it because a reliance on the beneficence of other is incompatible with human pride. It inspires no value in the objects given; when a community gives its blood, sweat, and tears to accomplish the construction of a building, it will not allow this building to fall into disrepair. Lastly, direct charity is a quick fix; it supplies help in the present, but provides  recipients no ability to subsist in the future.                 

To say that Epilogos was responsible for all of the projects described here would be a gross exaggeration. And to say that Epilogos didn’t play a role in the success of these projects would be a gross understatement.