waste transformation

Fatra Pa Egziste

SOIL launched a kids contest in Northern Haiti called “Fatra Pa Egziste” (garbage does not exist). Participants are asked to find something that someone else has thrown away and transform it into something beautiful or useful. The contest was launched in November 2007 in Shada, an impoverished urban community in Northern Haiti.

Liberation Ecology

The Philosophical Roots of Waste Transformation

In nature soil transforms organic matter, sustaining ecological systems by converting one organism’s wastes into another’s resources. It is from the soil that our organization has borrowed both our name and our philosophy. We too, believe that the path to sustainability is through transformation, of both marginalized people and discarded materials, turning disempowerment and pollution into participatory production.

WASH Project

The WASH Innovation Project is a collaboration between SOIL/SOL and OXFAM UK which includes constructing 25 indoor dry toilets and 4 public dry toilets, 

 

Timoun Yo Se Lespwa Festival

As 2008 turned into 2009, SOIL and SOL celebrated the first annual Ti moun yo se lespwa festival on the boulevard in Cap Haitien. The festival will be an annual event dedicated to the youth of Cap Haitien, it is a collaborative effort of community organizations, Haitian businesses and SOIL/SOL which aims to promote the following concepts: