SOIL’s EcoSan Toilet Design Goes Global
Last year, Daniel Tillias, the director of our dear partner organization, Pax Christi Ayiti, said “It is my vision that Haiti will have too many SOIL toilets producing fertilizer and we’ll have to start exporting them to the Dominican Republic and to all the other countries of the world”. Today we’re proud to announce that Daniel’s vision is starting to come true as the latest edition of Hesperian‘s “Where There Is No Doctor” manual features SOIL and our new composting toilet model. “Where...
read more6,000 Citrus Trees! – Jam Cruise passengers help launch SOIL’s new tree nursery in northern Haiti
Reposted from Trees, Water & People’s blog at treeswaterpeople.wordpress.com. by Sebastian Africano, International Director, Trees, Water & People With support from Haitian non-profit Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (S.O.I.L.) and Trees, Water & People (TWP), Positive Legacy and Jam Cruise passengers led the charge in seeding 6,000 citrus trees, thus launching a 10,000 seedling nursery at SOIL’s rural compost site in Limonade, Haiti. Positive Legacy and Trees, Water & People have partnered to offset Jam...
read moreSeeking a highly qualified engineer with a passion for innovative sanitation interventions…
SOIL is pleased to announce a job opening in Port au Prince, Haiti for a WASH engineer. We are seeking a highly qualified engineer with a passion for innovative sanitation interventions and a willingness to commit to a minimum 6 month position in Port au Prince. Though SOIL cannot offer the same salaries and benefits as our larger counterparts, we can promise an inspiring experience and the chance to closely interact with the communities we serve without the security restrictions common to other organizations. See full job posting on...
read moreHaiti Rising From the Ashes by Sasha Kramer
Remembering January 12, 2010 Download (PDF, 1.14MB)
read moreAl Jazeera: The world can’t afford to keep wasting soil
By Stan Cox, in Al Jazeera on January 12, 2012. One-third of Earth’s soil is degraded because of unsustainable farming methods, which could lead to a major food crisis. Salina, Kansas – Late last year, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the state of the world’s soil and water resources. The bottomline: 25 per cent of the world’s food-producing soils are highly degraded or are rapidly being degraded. Add to that other soils which they say are degrading...
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