SOIL Participates in Water and Sanitation Forum in Cap-Haitien
Participants at the Water and Sanitation Sectorial Forum
SOIL is pleased to have been a part of a new Water and Sanitation Sectorial Forum, focused on the northern region of Haiti, that convened for its inaugural session earlier this month. The goal of the forum is to strengthen consultation between local actors working in the areas of solid waste management, drinking water and sanitation, in order to support one another in the planning of interventions, increase the efficiency of resources mobilized, and encourage the participation of the local population around ongoing ...
Keurlit Charles Appointed EkoLakay Manager
The SOIL team is pleased to announce that Keurlit Charles has been named as our new EkoLakay Manager. Keurlit is stepping into the role after having spent the past two years as SOIL’s Field Operations Supervisor. Recently we had the opportunity to speak with him to learn more about his new role and responsibilities. Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your family. I grew up in a family of 6 in Trou du Nord. I am still living there with my parents and siblings. I am a former HELP scholar. I studied industrial engineering at Quiquesya University in ...
SOIL Participates in Global Knowledge Sharing at Two International Conferences
SOIL’s Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, recently had the opportunity to participate in two global conferences where she was able to share more about the work SOIL is doing to provide localized, sustainable services for communities in Haiti to a global audience. SOIL is always excited to share more about our innovative models, systems, research, and lessons learned in collaborative spaces like All Systems Connect and the Global Water Summit. Global forums and conferences offer a unique opportunity to connect face-to-face and participate in a global knowledge ...
SOIL Board Members Reflect on Haitian Heritage Month
Haitian Heritage Month is celebrated annually across the globe during the month of May to recognize the rich history, culture, and contributions of Haitians to society. Particularly in the U.S., Haitian Heritage Month is an opportunity to promote awareness and understanding of the Haitian-American community. This year we asked members of SOIL’s Board of Directors to share some of their thoughts about their own Haitian heritage and what this month means to them. Daniel Tillias (Board Co-Chair) Haitian Heritage Month is important to me and to my family. For the ...
Job Opening: Research Project Manager
ABOUT SOIL SOIL is an award-winning organization founded in 2006, inspired by the belief that the most pervasive human rights abuse globally is poverty. SOIL works in Haiti to increase access to climate-positive sanitation services using a groundbreaking circular-economy model that simultaneously improves public health, food security, economic development, and ecological resiliency. SOIL’s sanitation service currently provides over nearly 10,000 people with safely-managed sanitation, prevents over 500 metric tons of waste from polluting water resources each year, and ...
Meet Winnie: SOIL’s Research, Innovation and Advocacy Director
Winnie touring and working at SOIL's composting facility in Haiti
We’re thrilled to introduce SOIL’s new Research, Innovation and Advocacy Director, Winnie Felix-Jean! Winnie comes to us with a background in microbiology and global public health advocacy and with many years of experience with both clinical research and project management. Winnie has worked as a clinical researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center where she was responsible for the planning and oversight of the myeloma and hematology services and also led clinical oncology trials. She has ...
SOIL visits Sanima in Lima
Researchers touring Pamplona
SOIL’s Chief Operating Officer Nick Preneta and Research Associate Maya Lubeck-Schricker traveled to Lima, Peru last month to meet up with fellow research partners from the Off Grid Cities project for a series of presentations and discussions about progress to date, challenges faced, and steps forward. Off Grid Cities research focuses on an emerging off-grid sanitation paradigm in the form of container-based sanitation (CBS) across four country contexts – Haiti, Peru, Kenya and South Africa. The group works to address sustainable city-w...
A Better Way to Partner on Carbon Offsets?
Over the past decade there have been major innovations in formalizing the carbon offset market in order to reduce global emissions. There is also still A LOT of work to be done in the carbon market space to make it an equitable playing field for organizations like SOIL to become accredited – organizations that are able to quantify carbon mitigation, but unable to bear the heavy burden of associated costs in order to participate in the formal market. The standard model of carbon offset financing is for businesses and individuals to offset their carbon footprint by ...
SOIL Researchers Make Data Publicly Available
SOIL's Container Based Sanitation Suitability Map
Since the fall of 2022, Haiti has faced escalating instability, a scarcity of goods and services, and ongoing political unrest. While these challenges affect the population at large, it is often the country’s most vulnerable citizens who shoulder the heaviest burden during difficult times – their already tenuous access to food and fuel and other services made ever more precarious. Compounding the ongoing humanitarian crisis, is the recent resurgence of cholera in Haiti. Over the past few months, as our team ...
Women in Sanitation: SOIL’s Georgette François
The women at SOIL are passionate about increasing access to improved sanitation in the communities of Cap-Haitien because they know how much this access improves other women’s lives. This incredibly personal connection to the work often makes women some of the most passionate advocates for household sanitation. Having a toilet at home ensures that women have a private, safe space to use the toilet and manage menstruation, and it increases safety from violence as women no longer have to rely on using a shared or public option outside of the home. We recently spoke ...
