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....
By Allyn Gaestel, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2011 Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Instead of the commuters typically packed into the bright blue and red "tap tap" pickup truck weaving through Haiti's capital, a man, shrunken, dehydrated, dressed in a diaper and attached to an IV, lay on the....
Sasha Kramer, Ecologist, Emerging Explorer. National Geographic, 2011 “Haiti has very few resources right now. Ecological sanitation helps these marginalized, yet resilient people transform human waste into something valuable.” Sasha Kramer fights Haiti’s most pressing health, economic, and....
By Amy Bracken, PRI's The World, June 2, 2011 The village of Truittier, on the northern edge of Port-au-Prince, has a certain charm. Pigs snort and fowl cluck amid vegetable gardens and cactus hedges lining dirt paths. But the village’s raison d’etre lies in plain sight – piles of sorted trash in....