Garden

Nurturing Long-term Collaboration in Cite Soleil

Daniel during a visit to SOIL in northern Haiti last year Long-time SOIL partner and friend Daniel Tillias was recently nominated as a CNN hero in recognition of his transformative work in Haiti. Daniel is the co-founder of SAKALA, a community-building, sports, education and environmental....

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Our Doors Stay Open – An Update from Haiti

Read SOIL's November newsletter below. To receive stories like these directly in your inbox each month, click here to sign up for our mailing list. “Despite the circumstances, SOIL’s doors are staying open” shared our sanitation coordinator Algate Joseph. While communities in Haiti continue to....

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Dr. Sasha Kramer

Video: Sasha Kramer Talks Sustainable Sanitation with IWA

SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director Dr. Sasha Kramer recently presented on SOIL's work and alternatives to water-based sewage at the first IWA-IDB Innovation Conference on Sustainable Use of Water 2019 in Ecuador. Watch the video see what Sasha had to say about why it's important to think outside....

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students

Understanding Why Families Join SOIL’s Sanitation Service

SOIL provides employment in Haiti’s sanitation sector to more than 70 people, but beyond that, we strive to provide employment and internship opportunities whenever possible. Recently, SOIL hired 15 university students from various academic backgrounds in northern Haiti to assist with a study we are....

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JOB OPENING: DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Innovative, award-winning non-profit organization with over twelve years of demonstrated success in Haiti seeks a Development Director who can secure the external financing needed to expand and sustain our sanitation services in urban Haiti. ABOUT SOIL SOIL is an award-winning....

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Meet Djimitri, SOIL’s New Operations Director

Photo credit: Vic Hinterlang As SOIL continues to grow, so does our team! SOIL recently created a new position for an Operations Director in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. This new role is critical to our efforts to expand SOIL’s reach and will work with the senior management team in Port-au-Prince and Cap....

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Lucny Joasil

Meet Tidou

Photo credit: Monica Wise Lucny Joasil, better known to everybody as Tidou, has been connected to SOIL for more than a decade. He first met SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director Sasha Kramer in 2008 when SOIL was looking to hire Haitian Creole-English teachers and translators. That was Tidou’s....

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Cap-Haitien

Courage and Persistence

Read SOIL's October newsletter below. To receive stories like these directly in your inbox each month, click here to sign up to our mailing list. “The courage of my colleagues is inexplicable,” shared SOIL’s Wisner Jean-Louis on a call from Cap-Haïtien early yesterday morning. “The entire team is....

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The Strength of Solidarity

A note from SOIL's Co-Founder and Executive Director Sasha Kramer: This morning, in addition to waking up to the uncertainty and stress brought about by the ongoing instability in Haiti, our team arrived in the office to find words of solidarity and support from our colleagues all the way across the....

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SOIL offices

Discussing Future Growth with Local Stakeholders

Last month SOIL’s Port-au-Prince team hosted a meeting alongside community members and Haiti’s Ministry of Environment (MDE) to discuss SOIL’s composting waste treatment site and plans for future growth. It was a part of a broader Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that the MDE leads and was a....

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