Blog: 2019

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Understanding Why Families Join SOIL’s Sanitation Service

SOIL provides employment in Haiti’s sanitation sector to more than 70 people, but beyond that, we strive to provide employment and internship opportunities whenever possible. Recently, SOIL hired 15 university students from various academic backgrounds in northern Haiti to assist with a study we are....

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JOB OPENING: DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Innovative, award-winning non-profit organization with over twelve years of demonstrated success in Haiti seeks a Development Director who can secure the external financing needed to expand and sustain our sanitation services in urban Haiti. ABOUT SOIL SOIL is an award-winning....

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Meet Djimitri, SOIL’s New Operations Director

Photo credit: Vic Hinterlang As SOIL continues to grow, so does our team! SOIL recently created a new position for an Operations Director in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. This new role is critical to our efforts to expand SOIL’s reach and will work with the senior management team in Port-au-Prince and Cap....

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Meet Tidou

Photo credit: Monica Wise Lucny Joasil, better known to everybody as Tidou, has been connected to SOIL for more than a decade. He first met SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director Sasha Kramer in 2008 when SOIL was looking to hire Haitian Creole-English teachers and translators. That was Tidou’s....

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Courage and Persistence

Read SOIL's October newsletter below. To receive stories like these directly in your inbox each month, click here to sign up to our mailing list. “The courage of my colleagues is inexplicable,” shared SOIL’s Wisner Jean-Louis on a call from Cap-Haïtien early yesterday morning. “The entire team is....

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The Strength of Solidarity

A note from SOIL's Co-Founder and Executive Director Sasha Kramer: This morning, in addition to waking up to the uncertainty and stress brought about by the ongoing instability in Haiti, our team arrived in the office to find words of solidarity and support from our colleagues all the way across the....

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Discussing Future Growth with Local Stakeholders

Last month SOIL’s Port-au-Prince team hosted a meeting alongside community members and Haiti’s Ministry of Environment (MDE) to discuss SOIL’s composting waste treatment site and plans for future growth. It was a part of a broader Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that the MDE leads and was a....

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3 Takeaways from a Study on SOIL's Circular Solution

photo credit: Vic Hinterlang As we work to expand access to sanitation in Haiti, SOIL is helping to revolutionize the global approach to sanitation by transparently sharing lessons learned from our work in Haiti through peer-reviewed publications and an active engagement in sector dialogues. A....

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Behind the Scenes at SOIL: Four Operational Updates

Following a collaboration with a process redesign consultant, SOIL’s EkoLakay team in northern Haiti has been hard at work on operational improvements to build strong foundations for growth in Cap-Haitïen. Our primary objective is for SOIL to ensure we have the systems in place to work as....

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A Fuel Crisis in Haiti

Photo Credit: Bijay Rai Read SOIL's September newsletter below. To receive stories like these directly in your inbox each month, click here to sign up to our mailing list. It’s the start of a new school year in Haiti and this time of year is normally marked with possibility and hope for what’s to....

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