SOIL | Transforming wastes into resources in Haiti

About SOIL

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a US 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. We believe that the path to sustainability is through transformation, of both disempowered people and discarded materials, turning apathy and pollution into valuable resources. What We Do SOIL promotes integrated...

Toilets

SOIL’s ecological sanitation (EcoSan) toilets are currently providing essential sanitation services to over 14,000 people living in the camps of people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and over 10,000 people living in communities throughout northern Haiti and in Cap-Haitien. Waste Treatment SOIL’s composting sites treat the wastes from all of these toilets as well as EcoSan...

Compost

The majority of sanitation projects carried out in Haiti are implemented without forethought as to how the waste will be treated. Most toilets flush directly into rivers or the ocean and latrines are either abandoned when full or emptied untreated into sites that, again, leach directly into rivers or the ocean. SOIL is committed, not only to providing safe sanitation, but also to safely treating human waste through...

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