EPRODEP Studies and Projects of Popular Effort is a civil and communitarian non profit organisation founded by women and men who's area of work is located in the district of Ciudad Quetzal, San Juan Sacatepéquez. It was founded to promote a new educational model linked to progress in the area, responding to the voids and mistakes inside the public and private school system, a system that denied participation to parents in their children’s education for example and to help them reconsider their role and the benefits of organizing to achieve this progress.

In 1994, with the help of the community and the support from international cooperation , the actions started with the opening of a center for teenagers excluded from the public system . Later on it broadened to a primary school and kindergarten. Since then EPRODEP has pronounced against the urgent need to fight for the rights of children ,women and young people who are most vulnerable to violence. Together with other local organisations EPRODEP promotes the advocacy from this groups towards their own development: inclusive, intercultural; with genre equity, respect for Mother Nature and Human Rights; gestiona alternativas de educación formal, formación técnica y humana para el desarrollo económico sostenible, el incremento en el acceso a la recreación, la participación en la expresión artística y cultural con dimensión política y organizativa, la promoción de la responsabilidad en el auto cuidado de la salud personal, familiar y comunitaria y el impulso de procesos graduales y sistemáticos para la sustentabilidad institucional de sus programas.