By the International Political Forum, August 20, 2013. Original post available here. The earthquake of 2010 devastated Haiti – since then it has perpetually struggled to re-build itself and for those that have chosen to keep an eye on this impoverished Island we have seen few success stories....
SOIL is an organization founded in Cap-Haitien in northern Haiti that works with ecological sanitation (EcoSan) and agriculture. SOIL started out doing great work with EcoSan in Cap-Haitien by constructing toilets for people to use that are different from toilets they may have used before. SOIL’s....
As most of our supporters are aware, despite the fact that more than 3.5 years have passed since the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, for the hundreds of thousands of people still living in tents the emergency is far from over. Even as many people have moved out of the larger camps and into permanent....
We are excited to announce that SOIL is a finalist Ashoka’s Nutrients for All Competition! Participating in this competition has been such a pleasure for us because the goals of the Nutrients for All movement so closely align with our own philosophy. Nutrients for All and Ashoka Changemakers are....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure. In Theo Talks Episode 17, Theo stops to consider whether the SOIL cat, named Chicken Flavor, is alive and well. By the end of the video we've had ample time to admire "complete relaxation", but we still don't know how the....
By Shannon Smith I’m five weeks into my Social Media and Outreach Internship with the 501(c)3 non-profit Sustainable Integrated Organic Livelihoods (SOIL) and I couldn’t be more pleased to be working with such an effective, socially responsible organization. In my time here I’ve come to more fully....
Dear Friends, Ecological sanitation (EcoSan) is a new concept in Haiti (first introduced by SOIL in 2006), but it has caught on quickly. This is partly because of the technology’s unique suitability to a country with almost no sanitation infrastructure, limited funding for expensive sanitation....
Summer in Haiti is dominated by the “Fèt Champèt,” an annual town festival centered around a patron saint. The Fèt Champèt for each town means a celebration for their patron saint with multiple days of music, dancing, games, great food and bustling markets, accompanied often by vodou festivities on....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema as he shares a laugh with the "heaps and heaps and heaps" of children in Shada (where SOIL has been working for many years to expand access to ecological sanitation). In this short adventure a kid hops a ride in a suitcase careening through Cap....
I'm Jimmy Louis, and I work as the full time Sanitation Coordinator for SOIL in Port-au-Prince. I was integrated into the SOIL family in 2010 after the earthquake. I've come to see that SOIL is not just an office where you come to work and then leave; SOIL is a school where you find many teachers....