SOIL’s 2019 Annual Report
What a year it has been! Read about what we have been able to accomplish together and what our dreams for the year ahead are in SOIL's new annual report. Check it out by downloading a copy or scrolling through below:
Want to read more? See past annual reports from SOIL here.
Support SOIL
SOIL depends on individual donations from people like you to fund our work in Haiti. Please consider supporting SOIL today.
Webinar: SOIL Talks Climate Connections with ILSR
Last
week, SOIL’s Executive Director and Co-Founder Dr. Sasha Kramer presented on the
Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Compost Climate Connections series webinar. Sasha discussed the
role compost plays in mitigating
climate change, how ecological sanitation systems work, and the benefits of
a circular economy approach to sanitation in Haiti. Long-time SOIL research
partner Dr. Rebecca
Ryals joined the webinar and shared the results from her recently
published paper that analyzes the climate benefits of SOIL’s ecological
sanitation services.
If
you weren’t ...
Nurturing Long-term Collaboration in Cite Soleil
Daniel during a visit to SOIL in northern Haiti last year
Long-time SOIL partner and friend Daniel Tillias was recently nominated as a CNN hero in recognition of his transformative work in Haiti. Daniel is the co-founder of SAKALA, a community-building, sports, education and environmental organization in Cité Soleil and his organization has long used both SOIL toilets and compost in their garden!
We first met Daniel in 2004 and have been proud to partner in a variety of ways since then, including in the humanitarian response to the devastating 2010 earthquake. ...
Our Doors Stay Open – An Update from Haiti
Read SOIL's November newsletter below. To receive stories like these directly in your inbox each month, click here to sign up for our mailing list.
“Despite the circumstances, SOIL’s doors are staying open” shared our sanitation coordinator
Algate Joseph. While communities in Haiti continue to navigate a devastating
economic and political crisis, another month has passed without significant
improvement.
The majority of schools in the country have yet to reopen while many service providers, hospitals, and businesses have closed – in some cases, perman...
Video: Sasha Kramer Talks Sustainable Sanitation with IWA
SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director Dr. Sasha Kramer recently presented on SOIL's work and alternatives to water-based sewage at the first IWA-IDB Innovation Conference on Sustainable Use of Water 2019 in Ecuador.
Watch the video see what Sasha had to say about why it's important to think outside the sewer.
Sustainable alternatives to water-based sewage from IWA on Vimeo.
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SOIL depends on individual donations from people like you to fund our work in Haiti. Please consider supporting SOIL today.
Other Recent SOIL Coverage
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Understanding Why Families Join SOIL’s Sanitation Service
SOIL provides employment in Haiti’s sanitation sector to more than 70 people, but beyond that, we strive to provide employment and internship opportunities whenever possible. Recently, SOIL hired 15 university students from various academic backgrounds in northern Haiti to assist with a study we are conducting to better understand why people join and remain a part of SOIL’s EkoLakay sanitation service.
Background on the Research
The 26-day long study took place in Cap-Haitïen alongside our partners at OPEPA, the Haitian Government’s local water and sanitat...
JOB OPENING: DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Innovative, award-winning non-profit organization with over twelve years of demonstrated success in Haiti seeks a Development Director who can secure the external financing needed to expand and sustain our sanitation services in urban Haiti.
ABOUT SOIL
SOIL is an award-winning organization founded in 2006, inspired by the belief that the most pervasive human rights abuse globally is poverty and that the key to unlocking human development potential is ensuring equitable, safe, and dignified access to basic services. SOIL works in Haiti to ...
Meet Djimitri, SOIL’s New Operations Director
As SOIL continues to grow, so does our team! SOIL recently created a new position for an Operations Director in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. This new role is critical to our efforts to expand SOIL’s reach and will work with the senior management team in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien to guide SOIL’s performance and growth. Djimitri Celestin was selected for this position, which starts mid-November, and we are delighted to welcome him to the SOIL team.
Djimitri has a background in
industrial engineering and supply chain management and will be a huge asset to
SOIL as ...
Meet Tidou
Lucny Joasil, better known to everybody as Tidou, has been
connected to SOIL for more than a decade. He first met SOIL Co-Founder and
Executive Director Sasha Kramer in 2008 when SOIL was looking to hire Haitian
Creole-English teachers and translators. That was Tidou’s initial role with
SOIL and over the years he has moved into new positions with our team, each
time taking on more and more responsibility. Now, he’s the Assistant Composting
Supervisor at SOIL’s waste treatment site outside of Cap-Haïtien.
Reporting directly to SOIL’s Composting Supervisor Job ...
Courage and Persistence
Read SOIL's October newsletter below. To receive stories like these directly in your inbox each month, click here to sign up to our mailing list.
“The courage of my colleagues is inexplicable,” shared SOIL’s Wisner Jean-Louis on a call from Cap-Haïtien early yesterday morning. “The entire team is driven to do what they can to keep SOIL’s service running through the crisis as if we weren’t in the midst of one.” Unfortunately, in the "midst of a crisis" is truly the only way to describe the situation right now. When we shared an update with ...
