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HRD 2025

Human Rights Day 2025: Dignity Starts with a Toilet

Today, December 10, the world celebrates Human Rights Day , marking the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Article 1 is only seven words long, yet it carries the weight of our shared humanity: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Dignity. That....

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ID Insight blog

Scaling Sanitation with Smarter Data: SOIL’s work with ID Insight

At SOIL, we're on a mission to transform urban sanitation for underserved communities through our innovative EkoLakay service. But as we scale the service to reach 8,000 households in northern Haiti by March 2027, having easy access to real-time, robust data and performance indicators at our....

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Mouchinette Road to Compost Site

SOIL Partners with GWI & EcoLab at the UltraFacility Conference for Climate Impact

SOIL’s direct climate partnership with Global Water Intelligence (GWI) and EcoLab will offset carbon emissions generated by attendees traveling to the 2025 UltraFacility Conference in Texas from December 3–5. This partnership channels carbon revenue directly into SOIL’s EkoLakay container-based....

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Research blog

Enpak Done: Asosye Rechèch SOIL sou Elajisman Sanitasyon nan Okap

Sèvis sanitasyon EkoLakay SOIL la toujou gen baz sou prèv syantifik ak rechèch, epi nan kè ekip rechèch nou an genyen asosye Bridj Ozeris ak Miselie Fanor Pierre . Tou de mete anpil tan ak pasyon nan ede ekip operasyon nou an amelyore sèvis EkoLakay la, e nou te chita ansanm avèk yo nan biwo SOIL....

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Bridj and Miselie

Data-Driven Impact: A Conversation with SOIL’s Research Associates

SOIL’s EkoLakay sanitation service has always been backed in scientific evidence and research. At the heart of our research team are SOIL Research Associates Bridj Ozeris and Miselie Fanor-Pierre , who have dedicated significant time and passion to helping our operations team optimize the EkoLakay....

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Maudeline

SOIL’s Superstar Sales Agent: Maudeline Retains 100% On-Time Payments with Clients

Over the past year, SOIL improved our on-time client payment rate by an impressive ~10%. In a city where daily life can change in an instant, maintaining reliable business operations is no small task. Yet our team continues to show what professionalism looks like in complex urban environments....

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WTD

World Toilet Day Interview with Loowatt's Andry Ratsifehera

Toilets! Not that glamorous of a topic to talk about right? Well, it’s all we really like to talk about and so we’re going to keep doing it anyway. Plus, today is OUR DAY because it’s World Toilet Day ! What is World Toilet Day? This momentous holiday is a once-a-year celebration held to raise....

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Government Stakeholders Meeting

Government Partners Join SOIL to Advance Sanitation in Cap-Haïtien

On September 30, 2025 — the last day of both SOIL’s and the Haitian Government’s fiscal year (no coincidence, but indeed a planned synchronicity) — leaders from across Haiti’s public sector gathered in Cap-Haïtien for a workshop to strengthen sanitation access in the North and advance the national....

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Welcoming Maya Lubeck-Schricker as SOIL's Research Director

We are beyond excited to welcome Maya Lubeck-Schricker back to the SOIL team—this time as our Director of Research and Innovation. Maya’s journey with SOIL began in 2020, right after she finished up her undergraduate degree in Community Health at Tufts University. While scoping out different post....

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SOIL at UNC

Join SOIL at the UNC Water & Health Conference in Chapel Hill

We are excited to announce SOIL’s participation in the 2025 UNC Water and Health Conference . SOIL’s Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, and Director of Research and Innovation, Maya Lubeck-Schricker, will be in attendance to showcase our ongoing efforts and progress towards accelerating universal....

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