HELP & SOIL: Fostering Meaningful Careers for Young Haitians
SOIL's HELP graduates with a representative of the organization
Haitian Education & Leadership Program (HELP) is an educational empowerment program in Port-au-Prince that provides underprivileged and promising young Haitians scholarships to universities in Haiti. In addition to providing full tuition, the program includes English language and IT courses, Citizen & Leadership training, and a Career Services program. The goal of the program is to provide job readiness skills and management training to their students; empowering them to rise out of poverty and ...
Capacity Building Training for SOIL’s Sales Team
The SOIL sales team in training with a consultant from Whitten & Roy Partnership
SOIL is at the threshold of an exciting and hopeful moment as we prepare to significantly scale up our services in the coming months. As we do so, we are serious about maintaining a sustainable business model for household sanitation and recognize that in order to do so we must work to build on the skills, instincts, abilities and processes of our team. Focusing on developing the core assets of our team will allow us to become even more effective and efficient so that we can continue ...
SOIL’s EkoMobil Service Sees an Increase in Rental Requests
SOIL's EkoMobil toilets at this years Diner en Blanc event in Cap-Haitien.
EkoMobil, SOIL’s high-quality, and ecologically beneficial portable toilet rental service, has been seeing some exciting growth over this year! Our mobile toilets, similar to our household toilets, are a Container Based Sanitation (CBS) solution and available for rentals at both public and private events, including festivals,, construction sites, school events and more in Cap-Haitien. In the past year we have notably seen the requests for EkoMobil toilet rentals more than double – which ...
SOIL Welcomes CDC to Offices in Cap-Haitien
SOIL staff with CDC team members & EkoLakay clients
Last month we were excited to welcome partners from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Haiti Country Office to the SOIL Sales Office in Cap-Haitien. CDC Program Director Dr. Delayo Zomahoun and Program Deputy Ken Chen met with SOIL’s Senior Sales Manager Beverly Pierre and EkoLakay Senior Manager Romel Toussaint to discuss SOIL’s business and sanitation model. The CDC Haiti team also had the opportunity to speak with several EkoLakay clients who shared testimonials about their experiences ...
Meet Rich Flammer: SOIL’s New Advisory Board Member
We’re thrilled to introduce a new member of SOIL’s Special Advisory Board, Rich Flammer! Rich has more than 32 years of hands-on composting experience working extensively throughout the continental U.S., Hawaii, Central America and Mexico. Principal of the consulting firm, Hidden Resources, he has designed, managed, permitted, evaluated, and/or remediated hundreds of large-scale composting facilities for both private and public sector clients. He has also been involved in public policy formation, rulemaking development for state composting regulations, and composting ...
SOIL and IAF Meet Up in Fort Bourgeois
IAF staff and grantees with SOIL's Sadouddly Michael-Lambert
SOIL was excited to have the opportunity to meet with staff members from the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) last month in Cap-Haitien. IAF is an independent US foreign assistance organization that invests in community-led grassroots development across Latin America and the Caribbean. Their work is focused on engaging local leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in underserved areas to create more prosperous, peaceful and democratic communities. IAF has been funding projects in Haiti since 1975 and currently ...
CBS: The Future of Safely Managed Sanitation
SOIL’s partner, Global Water Intelligence (GWI), a global water industry publisher and event organizer, is always exploring new ways to push the water sector forward and share its findings with stakeholders in the industry. In an article in the latest installment of their newsletter, GWI investigated answers to the question: “What should the future of safely managed sanitation systems look like?” The article examines growing opportunities for onsite sanitation (OSS) technologies and highlights Container Based Sanitation (CBS) as an effective, low-cost and integrated ...
New Study by WHO and UNICEF Reports Women and Girls Most at Risk From the Water and Sanitation Crisis
Photo credit: Vic Hinterlang
This month the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF released a new report titled Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) 2000 - 2022: Special focus on gender which provides the first in depth analysis of gender inequalities in WASH services. The report notes that some progress has been made - household access to safely managed sanitation increased from 49 to 57% between 2015 and 2022 - but achieving the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goal target for universal access by 2030 will require a ...
2023 Tourism Innovation Summit Kicks Off in Cap-Haitien
The Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) is a week-long event that is taking place this week in Cap-Haitien, July 3 - 8. The summit is an opportunity to facilitate and spark new ideas for the Haitian tourism sector. Long known as the Pearl of the Antilles, Haiti has struggled to build its tourism industry largely due to a lack of essential infrastructure and resources that the tourism and hospitality industry rely on. This summit helps bring the business community together to inspire collaboration, spur interest, and attract strategic investments in the Haitian tourism sector ...
Grinder Campaign Update – Thank You!
SOIL's Sebastien Jabouin Jacques with the new grinder
Thanks to our very generous supporters and friends, we received over $29,000 in donations to our Grinder campaign! From all of us at SOIL, thank you for your generosity and for your continued commitment to helping ensure safe, dignified sanitation for families in Cap-Haitien. As many of our readers know, this fundraising effort was predicated by our need to produce more bonzodè which is the cover material used as the “flush” in SOIL’s water-free household toilets. Bonzodè is an essential component of our ...
