SAKALA Field trip to Compost Site

Last Sunday 12 young women from Cite Soleil visited the SOIL compost site in Pernier.  The young women were from a local organization called SAKALA (supported by Pax Christi Haiti) which works on community development and conflict prevention in Cite Soleil.  SOIL has been working with SAKALA for the past 2 years on ecological sanitation and we currently have 20 toilets in the Cite Lumiere neighborhood of Cite Soleil where SAKALA is active.

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SAKALA has recently started an amazing community garden called Tap Tap Garden with the support of Bochika, a Florida based organization that works closely with SOIL.  Given their experience with ecological sanitation, SAKALA purchased 15 bags of compost from SOIL to use to start the garden, completing the cycle of transforming human wastes into useable resources.

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SOIL was honored to be able to host these 12 young women from SAKALA at our compost site last Sunday where they were able to learn about the composting process.  The group returned from the trip inspired and have since requested a composting site in their neighborhood to allow them to compost their own wastes for use in the community garden.

The garden will be inaugurated in January and SOIL looks forward to updating our supporters after the event.  We are incredibly grateful to SAKALA and our other partner organizations for helping us to demonstrate sustainable resource use in a way that benefits vulnerable communities.

Tap Tap garden an avan!

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