By Mary Catherine O'Connor in Smart Planet, November 19, 2011 Today is the 10th annual World Toilet Day. Sponsored by the Singapore-based World Toilet Organization, the event is meant to build awareness about the risks that lack of sanitation present to the physical, emotional and psychological....
On Thursday, November 10th, twenty-four enthusiastic individuals representing local, national and international organizations came together in Port-au-Prince to learn ecological sanitation principles and best practices in a day-long training lead by SOIL staff. This year SOIL began a series of....
Several times a week SOIL driver Clotes Alexandre starts up the large flatbed truck parked outside the front door of the office and rumbles out into the streets of Port-au-Prince. With the help of SOIL's Drum Collection Team, Davidson Ulysses and Herby Sanon, Clotes works his way through urban....
By Rasha Shihabi, Catalyst, November 7, 2011 A special project lead by SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihood) attempts to use a new type of public toilets to address Haiti’s devastating sanitation issues. SOIL hopes that not only will their efforts address the country’s sanitation crisis....
"'Sanitation was the most successful health intervention in the modern world,' said SOIL co-founder and soil ecologist Sasha Kramer. But in Haiti, 'poop getting into water is the leading cause of death.' So far, SOIL has installed ecological toilets in camps of more than 20,000 people left homeless....
A special post from SOIL Board Member Jessica Lozier On Saturday October 15th, the SOIL team joined hands with the community of Shada to celebrate Universal Hand-Washing Day, a neighborhood where SOIL has worked for years. Children and adults alike participated in the community celebration which....
Dear friends and supporters, I am ashamed that this letter is so long in coming. I know that the last time we wrote to you SOIL was facing a major crisis and I am so grateful to those of you who reached out to us during that difficult time. I know that many of you may have been wondering if we still....
SOIL is looking for a volunteer graphic designer who has time to help us put together the 2012 SOIL calendar... We would provide photos and text. It must be sent to the printer within the next 4 weeks. Anyone out there want to help SOIL raise funds to continue to provide EcoSan and EcoSan education....
By Theresa Johnston, Stanford Magazine, September/October 2011 How poor is Haiti? Picture a country of more than 10 million people without a single sewage treatment plant. The closest thing they have is an open unlined pit at the Port-au-Prince city dump. Each day about 50 tanker trucks pull up to....
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. [hr style="solid"] 10 September 2011 Dear Sasha: Thank you so much for your work in Haiti. We were glad to see the collaboration with Oxfam, but we....