Tech Centers

SOIL’s Tech Centers are decentralized meeting spaces designed to foster the sharing of ideas and hope, for uniting people educated in universities with those educated by the land, and for encouraging everyone to come together to develop ideas for improving health, protecting the environment, and encouraging economic independence.

Programs

Urban gardening project at the SOIL Tech Center in Shada

Each Tech Center develops its own programs based on community priorities and the skills and interests of its staff and volunteers, but they work together to share ideas, experiences, and data.

Common projects of all the Tech Centers include: experimental gardens to test compost and urine fertilization techniques, youth empowerment programs, water source microbiological testing and construction of ecological sanitation toilets.

Locations

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Shada

SOIL’s Tech Center in Cap-Haitien Haiti is located in the Shada neighborhood, an impoverished urban slum. In addition to providing a location for SOIL’s technology transfer seminars and youth empowerment programs, SOIL’s Shada Tech Center hosts a daily feeding program for children funded by Food For the Poor.

Milot

Since 2007, the Tech Center in Milot has been disseminating information about ecological sanitation, hosting international Engineers Without Borders groups and holding educational seminars.