October 2020 Newsletter: Haiti’s long history in the fight for social justice
Dear Friend,
We wanted to take some time this month to acknowledge the incredible collective action we have witnessed this year, with protests around the world highlighting the ongoing struggle for social justice and accountability. As an organization based in Haiti and run by a community of Haitian staff, board members, partners, beneficiaries and donors, over the years our team has borne witness to similar calls for action and protests against policies and complex systems of power that disadvantage the majority of Haitians.
Haiti’s long history of collective ...
Composting to Restore Soil Health with Konpòs Lakay
In rural areas of Haiti, agriculture production and farming are important occupations for many people. Agriculture is Haiti’s main industry and makes up over 60% of the workforce, with main global exports including mangoes, coffee, papayas and spinach. However, food production can still be quite challenging for many farmers due to depleted soils and periods of drought. Additionally, years of foreign intervention and policy have forced Haiti to rely heavily on cheap global imports for food supply, which has distorted the market for some crops, leaving the supply chains ...
SOIL featured in Expo 2020 Dubai Global Best Practice Programme | Untold Stories
In 2019 SOIL was awarded the Innovation Impact Grant by Expo Live, an innovation and partnership program launched by Expo 2020 Dubai, for our sustainable social enterprise solution to sanitation in Haiti. The goal of this grant is to provide support to help grow social enterprises and projects and promote creative solutions to that improve lives while preserving our planet. As part of this incredible effort put forth by Expo 2020 Dubai to highlight and showcase the over 200 organizations participating in the Expo, SOIL was also chosen to be featured in their Global Best ...
Entèvyou ak direktè jeneral lameri Okap
Direktè jeneral lameri Okap, Carry Hyppolite, bò kote Manadjè Senyò SOIL, Romel Toussaint
SOIL te gen opòtinite pou li te rankontre ak Carry Hyppolite, yon ekonomis e direktè jeneral meri Okap, pou yo pale de relasyon SOIL ak meri a epi de sitiyasyon sanitè nan rejyon Nò peyi Dayiti. Hyppolite fet nan vil Okap e li temwen de chanjman ke agrandisman popilasyon an pote nan vil la pandan ane yo. Nan fen ane 1980 yo te gen anpil ayisyen ki kite zòn riral pou yo al rete nan zòn iben yo, akòz pat gen ase travay ak opòtinite pou yo viv nan zòn riral yo – sa vin ...
Avi rekwitman: Asistan Depatman Vant
Avi rekwitman Asistan Depatman Vant
Avètisman Pòs Rezime:
SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) travay an Ayiti pou transfome dechè an resous depi 2006. Misyon nou se kore diyite, lasante ak travay sosyal dirab nan transfomasyon dechè an resous enpòtan pou lanati. Sèvis EkoLakay se yon sèvis twalèt inovatif ke SOIL lanse depi 2011 nan Okap. EkoLakay genyen pliske 1000 kliyan nan zon Kap-Ayisyen ki anrejistre pou sèvis sa epi peye mansyèlman pou yon koleksyon ki fasilite tout matyè a trete e transfòme nan yon konpòs. Konpòs sa, ki rele Konpos ...
SOIL Partners: An Interview with the Director General of Cap-Haitien’s city hall
Director General of City Hall, Carry Hyppolite, alongside SOIL's Senior Manager, Romel Toussaint
SOIL recently had the opportunity to catch up with, Carry Hyppolite, economist and Director General of City Hall in Cap-Haitien to talk about City Hall’s partnership with SOIL and the sanitation situation in Northern Haiti. Hyppolite, a native of Cap-Haitien has witnessed first-hand the changes that increasing population density has brought to the city over the years. The late 1980s brought a large wave of migration of Haitians from rural to urban areas, due to loss of ...
An Interview with Entre Nous: A Big Problem in Haiti – the Environment
Haiti's environmental issues recently caught the attention of Entre Nous journalist Vladimir Laguerre, who sat down to speak with SOIL’s Senior Manager, Romel Toussaint and Sakala’s Co-founder, Daniel Tillias (and member of SOIL’s Board of Directors), to learn more about the work the two organizations are doing to address environmental and human rights issues in Haiti.
Both SOIL and Sakala have been working in Haiti for over a decade to promote human rights, environmental protection, and sustainable urban communities. SOIL’s household toilet and ecological ...
Yon ti chita pale ak “Entre Nous”: Yon Gwo Pwoblem an Ayiti – Anviwonman an
Degradasyon anviwomnan peyi Dayiti te atire atansyon jounalis Vladimir Laguerre ki te fe yon chita pale avek SOIL e Sakala, 2 oganizasyon kap travay pou pote soutyen nan lit pou yon anviwomnan ki pi sen.
SOIL ap travay depi lane 2006 an Ayiti nan domèn sanitasyon ekolojik kote li transfome deche imen a travè 2 pwogram li genyen ki se Ekolakay ak Konpos Lakay. Ak twalèt EkoLakay, SOIL kolekte deche ke li transfome an konpos. Sa bay anpil moun posibilite pou gen yon espas ijienik pou fe bezwen yo. Dapre yon kliyan, EkoLakay pote yon gwo solisyon pou moun pa fe bezwen nan ...
Composting Across Countries: A visit to Kompotoi in Switzerland
As SOIL continues to grow and expand our services in Haiti, we recognize the need to keep improving our operations efficiency, deepening our research, and exploring what others in the sector are doing. We love visiting our container-based sanitation and composting friends around the world, because it gives us a chance to see firsthand what else is going on in the sanitation sector. While back in her home country of France, SOIL’s Compost Program Advisor and Waste Management Engineer Julie Jeliazovski took a trip over the border to Switzerland to visit Kompotoi, a mobile ...
Job Opening: Development and Communications Intern
Job Announcement: Development and Communications Intern Application Deadline: October 2, 2020 Start Date: November 2, 2020 (or earlier if possible)
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. SOIL works in Haiti to increase access to climate-positive sanitation services using a groundbreaking circular-economy model that simultaneously improves public health, food security, economic development, and ecological resiliency. SOIL’s sanitation service currently ...
