Last Sunday 12 young women from Cite Soleil visited the SOIL compost site in Pernier. The young women were from a local organization called SAKALA (supported by Pax Christi Haiti) which works on community development and conflict prevention in Cite Soleil. SOIL has been working with SAKALA for the....
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In one of the urban neighborhoods hardest hit by cholera, Shada, Cap-Haitien, SOIL community workers have been going door-to-door to find out why. Over the past four weeks, SOIL has spoken with the residents of over 2,500 households about their access to sanitation and their family's hygiene....
SOIL's 2012 calendar is at the printer! It was designed by the amazing Mimi Jorling, a friend and volunteer of SOIL, who lives in New York City but also volunteers for a local organization in Cabaret, just outside Port-au-Prince. The 2012 calendar follows the EcoSan cycle, featuring gorgeous photos....
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....