Blindfolded participants navigating their way through a web of ropes, a forest of saplings, and around a goat? While it may sounds like some kind of strange party game, this was actually an educational demonstration during a recent SOIL workshop. SOIL hosted its first Green Recovery Reconstruction....
Dear friends, The 2013 Annual Report is here! We hope you enjoy this quick summary of what we've been up to lately. It's an exciting time at the SOIL offices in Haiti these days: ecological sanitation (EcoSan) toilets built by SOIL and other organizations using SOIL's designs are providing critical....
By Elise Jordan in The Daily Beast, February 3, 2014 [box]"The SOIL project, operating in Haiti since 2006, turns human waste into compost at the largest sanitation treatment site in Haiti. Paid local toilet managers in the community are responsible for upkeep, and the sale of the compost will....
"Since 2006, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and grantee Sasha Kramer, a soil scientist, has been installing dry composting toilets that convert human waste into useful fertilizer in Haiti. The nonprofit group she cofounded, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL), hopes to address....
[ Li enfòmasyon sa a an kreyòl ayisyen.] SOIL conducts regular one-day workshops on how SOIL’s use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) technology in Haiti. This workshop includes an overview of SOIL’s programs, technologies used, lessons learned, and implementation suggestions. Workshops are held in....
[ Read this information in English.] SOIL òganize tanzantan atelye pou montre SOIL sèvi ak teknoloji sanitasyon ekolojik (EkoSan) an Ayiti. Fòmasyon sa gen ladan yon rezime de pwogram yo nou, kom pa egzamp: teknoloji ke nou sèvi, leson nou te aprann nan developman teknoloji sa, e pwopozisyon pou....
[box type="shadow"] SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti.[/box] Here at SOIL, we are committed to sharing our knowledge and resources, because we know that when more people are empowered....
SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director Sasha Kramer is coming to Portland! She will be speaking at Reed College on Wednesday, February 5th. Please join us to learn more about SOIL's work in Haiti. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. This event is an opportunity to spread awareness and gain....
Concern, an international humanitarian relief organization, recently contracted SOIL to lead a training session for families in La Gonave using Concern EcoSan toilets. La Gonave is a small island off the coast of Port-au-Prince, and in the wake of the cholera epidemic that swept the nation after the....
This is a land so vibrant and alive that laugher will come bursting through as imperious as the sun and the spirit will survive resilient as the soil. - Dennis Brutus 1978 ”Love; the Struggle” Dennis Brutus, a visionary poet and courageous activist, was also a founding member of the SOIL advisory....