Tout moun se moun is a Haitian proverb that means ‘every person is a person’ – a sentiment that the SOIL team has held on tightly to this past year – another year that has been extremely challenging for Haitians and for many people around the world. As we share our 2023 Annual Report with you, news....
World Toilet Day , celebrated each year on November 19th, is SOIL’s favorite holiday because it’s about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis with the goal of reaching the 3.5 billion people in the world still living without safely managed sanitation. Each day in Haiti, SOIL’s....
We should all aim, in some way or other, to improve the world in which we are privileged to live, so that in the field in which we have chosen to work, we will leave the world in a better state than when we arrived. ~ Dr. Peter Morgan Every November 19th, SOIL celebrates one of its favorite holidays....
SOIL is immensely grateful for every single donation that we receive. Financial support from our friends and partners truly is the cornerstone of our continued operational success and helps us to ensure safe, dignified sanitation for families in Cap-Haitien – which is why we were so honored when we....
SOIL is excited to welcome two new staff members to our Research team: Miselie Fanor Pierre and Bridj Ozeris. Miselie and Bridj will be working out of our offices and work sites in Cap-Haitien, supporting the development and implementation of research projects. “Increasing our knowledge and....
In 2020 an exciting study on SOIL’s sanitation solution was published in Nature Climate Change and revealed the groundbreaking climate benefits of our container based sanitation (CBS) service, putting Haiti at the forefront of research at the intersection of sanitation and climate change. The....
Haitian Education & Leadership Program (HELP) is an educational empowerment program in Port-au-Prince that provides underprivileged and promising young Haitians scholarships to universities in Haiti. In addition to providing full tuition, the program includes English language and IT courses, Citizen....
SOIL is at the threshold of an exciting and hopeful moment as we prepare to significantly scale up our services in the coming months. As we do so, we are serious about maintaining a sustainable business model for household sanitation and recognize that in order to do so we must work to build on the....
EkoMobil, SOIL’s high-quality, and ecologically beneficial portable toilet rental service, has been seeing some exciting growth over this year! Our mobile toilets, similar to our household toilets , are a Container Based Sanitation (CBS) solution and available for rentals at both public and private....
Last month we were excited to welcome partners from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Haiti Country Office to the SOIL Sales Office in Cap-Haitien. CDC Program Director Dr. Delayo Zomahoun and Program Deputy Ken Chen met with SOIL’s Senior Sales Manager Beverly Pierre and....