Today as I reflected on what to write on the 6 th anniversary of Haiti’s earthquake, I asked my colleagues to share their thoughts on how the earthquake had changed their lives. I learned things that I had never known. I learned that some of my co-workers lost children. I learned that some of them....
SOIL is seeking an engineering consultant to oversee the construction of two new composting sites in Port-au-Prince. The first site will be an experimental site within the Haitian Sanitation Authority’s (DINEPA) waste treatment site. This site will be designed to facilitate SOIL’s research into the....
SOIL celebrated two of our favorite holidays recently: World Toilet Day (November 19) and World Soil Day (December 5). To us, toilets and soil go together like peas in a pod. Many of you know that SOIL uses the natural processes of ecological sanitation in order to transform toilet waste into....
In order to provide compost of the highest quality and ensure that we comply with the Haitian government’s requirements and WHO safety guidelines, we perform regular microbiological and physicochemical testing on each pile of compost produced in our sites. Our lab in Cap-Haitien was previously....
Are you a database guru? Do words like “servers,” “scripting” and “syncing” make your heart flutter? SOIL is developing a social business model of household sanitation in Haiti. We are currently using a series of increasingly complicated Excel Sheets to manage our 500+ customers, so we are eager to....
As all of our friends and supporters know, SOIL has been working to improve access to safe, dignified sanitation in Haiti since 2006. But you may not know that from time to time, SOIL also lends a hand with Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) projects around the globe. Recently, SOIL’s Port-au-Prince....
We are pleased to announce that SOIL is a winner of the 2015 Humanitarian Water and Food Award! Founded in Denmark in 2008, the WAF Award “promotes global best practices in water and food security initiatives.” WAF evaluates solutions based on six values: sustainability, innovation, empowerment....
“Don’t take my picture!” This was a phrase that I heard over and over while working on a case study video for SOIL with the New-York based filmmaker Monica Wise. Although this was Monica’s first trip to Haiti, she is both an experienced traveler and fearless behind the camera, spending hours at SOIL....
This October, the Cap-Haitien SOIL staff participated in a three-day business training course hosted by Partners Worldwide. Two days of the training were dedicated to enhancing our management staff’s knowledge of basic business principles, such as calculating the price per unit of sale, negotiating....
*My apologies to the late great James Brown Here in Port-au-Prince, our customers love Konpòs Lakay – this morning we sold out our stock yet again - but there is one regular complaint we were getting: What is with that bag? It’s true. For a product that is all about restoring health to the earth....