SOIL | Empowering communities, building the soil, nourishing the grassroots.

Mission

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 16% of rural Haitians and 50% of those in cities have access to adequate sanitation facilities, by far the lowest coverage in the Western Hemisphere.

You Can Help

If you would like to get more involved in supporting SOIL’s efforts, please consider donating, contributing an item from our wish list or helping to organize a fundraiser in your area.

Newsletters

There are many reasons to despair when remembering the tragedy that took place two years ago and the terrible suffering that continues today. But on the second anniversary of the earthquake that has brought so many of us together on a common mission to help Haiti, we want to share with you a story of hope. The story starts in Parc Izmery.