With the support of Oxfam Great Britain, SOIL conducted a market assessment of compost and fertilizer sales in Haiti with a specific focus on indentifying possible markets for the sale of compost generated by EcoSan projects. Throughout the course of this study, the following market conditions were....
By Julia Steers, Huffington Post, January 13, 2011 Social change rarely makes for glamorous work, but Dr. Sasha Kramer's sanitation efforts in Haiti redefine the phrase "down and dirty." As a Stanford graduate student studying ecology, Sasha decided that upon graduation, she would go to Haiti to....
By Sokari, Black Looks, January 12, 2011 I met Sasha Kramer the co-founder of SOIL [Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods] one Sunday afternoon at a Haitian family wedding party high up on the top of a hill in Pernier district of Port-au-Prince. About 20 of us piled into the flat bed truck and....
In This Newsletter - Burning tires in the time of cholera - An update from Port-au-Prince - An update from northern Haiti - SOIL In The News - What SOIL is doing to combat the cholera epidemic - A visiting Notre Dame student tests SOIL's compost for pathogens - Holy Crap! (the film) - SOIL in Action....
By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, December 1, 2010 Nicholas D. Kristof reports from Haiti about toilets that aim to address the sanitation problems that lead to cholera, while also providing fertilizer to help farmers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lie8RlRu1r8
By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, December 1, 2010 An emergency cholera hospital is the grimmest kind of medical center, and it’s a symbol of the succession of horrors that have battered Haiti over the last year. Here in Haiti’s central plateau, I visited a cholera treatment center run by....
By Genevra Pittman, Onearth Magazine, November 18, 2010 When Haiti’s cholera outbreak hit tent camps around Port-au-Prince in early November, Sasha Kramer was ready. Kramer is the executive director of SOIL ( Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), an organization she co-founded in 2006. SOIL’s....
By Mara Gay, Haiti Rewired, November 17, 2010 Even before the country’s first cholera epidemic in more than six decades began to creep its way across the struggling country, leaving sickness and fear behind in a land that needed neither, Sasha Kramer knew that sanitation in Haiti was a matter of....
SOIL volunteer, Corinne Coe, helped us put together a beautiful calendar featuring the best photos from our Looking Through Their Eyes photo empowerment project and we now need your help distributing them. All proceeds from calendar sales will directly benefit SOIL's ongoing relief work. Please help....
The worst case scenario has happened - cholera has arrived in Port-au-Prince - and SOIL is continuing to do everything possible to limit the spread of the disease, to provide safe sanitation services, and to keep people informed on the best methods to prevent and treat it. SOIL's "Ajan Prevansyon" /....