By Alexandra Phanor-Faury, Essence, February 2, 2010 Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Haitians and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. SOIL promotes integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction. They do this by working closely with community organizations and activists in Haiti. Even before the quake, Haiti lacked adequate sanitation facilities. Huge piles of trash would collect in streets with no sign of being picked up. People are forced to dispose trash in rivers, oceans and even in abandoned houses. You can imagine how the sanitation problem has worsened after the quake.

To our dear friends and supporters who have been so present through this difficult time. I feel like I have a wall of love and protection around me knowing that you are all holding Haiti in your thoughts and prayers. I apologize for not having written for the past few days, it is partly that life....

Dear Friends, I apologize for my silence over the last week or so. I am just too devastated to be able to write anything coherent. Kevin is recovering from malaria and is now able to spend more of a day off the couch than on it. We are trying to keep in touch and do what we can from the US. I....

This afternoon, feeling helpless, we decided to take a van down to Champs de Mars (the area around the palace) to look for people needing medical care to bring to Matthew 25, the guesthouse where we are staying which has been transformed into a field hospital. Since we arrived in Port-au-Prince....

By Nell Scovell in Vanity Fair, January 19, 2010 Sasha Kramer buried an amputated leg in Haiti yesterday. Exeter-bred with a Stanford Ph. D. , Sasha is an ecologist and human rights worker who has been living in Haiti for years as co-founder of SOIL, a non-profit organization focusing on sanitation....

Apologies if these upcoming posts seem unpolished…that is because they are…we barely have time to write and internet is patchy so I will do what I can to get out information but I don’t promise eloquence. Love to you all and know that we are safe and taking precautions. Last night we (myself, Cat....

I am writing to you tonight with a heavy heart. In one night our world changed in Haiti. When the earthquake struck I was at the SOIL house in Cap Haitien with a group of students from the University of Miami, Florida International University and Notre Dame. We were incredibly lucky in Cap-Haitien....

By Sasha Kramer, San Francisco Bay View, January 12, 2011 One year ago this morning millions of Haitians rose to greet the cool January sunshine. They walked the streets of Port au Prince, on their way to work, through the damp corridors of the capital. The National Palace towered over Champs Mars....

By Nicholas D. Kristof, the New York Times, December 23, 2009 SOIL, www.oursoil.org, is bringing dry, composting toilets to Haiti. Run by two remarkable American women, SOIL operates on a shoestring budget in impoverished communities. One aim is to improve sanitation and public health. Another is to compost waste so that it can be safely used as fertilizer to boost agricultural production.

Welcome to the snazzy new SOIL web site brought to you courtesy of our most recent addition to the SOIL team, web guru Nadine Mondestin. What you see here is the fruit of six months of gruelling virtual labour - we hope you like it. Thanks to those of you who have patiently encouraged us to update....