From 2005 to 2007 development projects initiated by the Foundation in Guatemala were concentrated in the town of San Juan Alotenango-Sacatepèquez. The Alotenango project was inspired by the desire to promote the simultaneous implementation of several development activities, technical and social, in just one village. A greater visibility of development projects was thus anticipated rendering Alotenango a development model that could be followed by other communities. The project was initiated in 2005 by the cooperation between a public and a private organization: the Municipality of Alotenango – Sacatepèquez and the Jepa-Limmat Foundation. Since 2006 other public and private organizations have joined the Alotenango Group.
During the year 2008 a change of the Municipal Council occurred. Shortly thereafter a popular uprising shifted the attention to security issues. Necessarily, the activity of the Foundation had to be reduced in Alotenango, but it was extended to neighboring towns such as San Antonio Aguas Calientes and Santa Catarina Barahona.

Activities planned, initiated or completed (with the support of the Municipalities, the Jepa-Limmat Foundation and other private or public Agencies) include:

• Organization of an Office for Social Affairs.
• Training and educational courses.
• Management of environmental problem and disasters.
• Architectural renovation of key structures.
• Efficient, renewable energy and handling of garbage.
• Jepa model Houses – low cost decorous living.
• Model Clinics within the public health system.