This week, we're mixing it up with a guest post by Gina Wymore, who recently reached out to SOIL to arrange a field trip for a group of students who live nearby the SOIL office. Take it away Gina! Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of touring the SOIL organization with some students from the Have....
We are so proud to announce that SOIL's Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, was selected as an Ashoka Fellow. Ashoka Fellows are "pattern-changing social innovators" and "high-impact entrepreneurs" who are selected based on their creative solutions to the world's biggest social challenges. Sasha....
Last week I had the great honor and pleasure of participating in and presenting at the Water, Engineering and Development Centre ( WEDC) International Conference, hosted on the Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology campus in Kumasi, Ghana. The theme of this year’s conference was Ensuring....
Thanks to an exciting new development, SOIL staff will soon be wandering through the streets, staring at excitedly at their cell phones. No, Pokemon Go isn’t coming to Haiti (yet) - but SOIL is going mobile! After more than a year of research, we are moving forward with setting up a new data system....
"Our first ever toilet summit was organised jointly with Sanergy, a social enterprise in Kenya. The two day event brought together sanitation experts and service providers from Africa, North America, the Carribean and Europe (LooWatt, MoSan, Re:Source, Sanergy, Sanivation, SOIL and Oxfam ) to share....
"Along this journey we realised there were other like-minded individuals and organisations who had come to the same conclusion that container based sanitation (CBS), is the most appropriate solution to address the sanitation gap in densely settled urban areas where sewers are lacking and there is....
Dr. John Kilbride, a dear SOIL friend (and the esteemed brother-in-law of SOIL co-founder Sasha Kramer), embarks July 23 upon a 2-wheeled odyssey of federal proportions; pedaling from Santa Monica pier in LA, to Battery Park in NYC. He will be spreading the word about SOIL and our ten year....
We are proud to announce that SOIL was selected as the Energy Globe Award winner for Haiti in 2016. The Energy Globe Award is an international environmental prize awarded annually to projects focusing on energy efficiency, renewable energies, and the conservation of resources. [caption id=....
"While traveling to Haiti in July 2015, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with an organization called SOIL. SOIL provides sanitary toilets to communities around Port-au-Prince and uses the waste as compost for local agriculture. The organization represents an interesting example of the....
En Haïti, nous avons eu notre première station d'épuration des eaux noires dans la capitale en 2010, et depuis, elle n'est toujours pas fonctionnelle. De plus, ce système ne permet pas d'assurer le traitement de toutes les eaux noires produites à Port-au-Prince, sans parler du cas des autres villes....