SOIL | Transforming wastes into resources in Haiti

Trees

SOIL has launched a campaign with Trees Water People to plant 10,000 trees in Haiti in the coming year with SOIL’s own humanure compost. This project is part of our EcoSan initiative to not only collect and treat human waste, but to reincorporate it back into the earth, increasing productivity with more nutrients. Our tree nursery is already underway with thousands of seedlings, but we envision growing even...

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...

EcoSan

Currently, only 10% of rural Haitians and less than 25% of those in cities have access to adequate sanitation facilities, by far the lowest coverage in the Western Hemisphere.*

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Make a monthly contribution to SOIL and help us reach our goal of $2,500 each month in recurring donations. 95% of every dollar you donate goes directly to support our programs on the ground in Haiti. Show your support for SOIL with a monthly pledge, and join us in providing safe, dignified sanitation services, fighting cholera, and helping to regrow Haiti.