Land for Life
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
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Volunteering with SOIL
When I start to get discouraged about the state of the world - wars, racism, the widening gap between the rich and the poor - I check my inbox. Here's why: there's a good chance that someone has written in to say how much they love the work that SOIL is doing; how they, too, are passionate about....
Whole-hearted Support for Safe Sanitation!
SOIL Regional Sanitation Director Baudeler Magloire with Juslaine Aristil and Mauricette Jean Bidner, two participants in our World Toilet Day workshop. In case you somehow missed it on SOIL's Facebook and Twitter feeds, last Wednesday was World Toilet Day! Started in 2001 by the World Toilet....
The Globe and Mail: How an Exam Question Inspired This Social Entrepreneur
"SOIL’s initiative has the potential to vastly expand sanitation access in an affordable, sustainable way, while creating new jobs and livelihoods. Its model not only prevents further harm to the environment, it actively restores soil health through compost generation – reducing food insecurity....
Responding to Severe Flooding in North Haiti
Starting on Tuesday morning, the SOIL Cap-Haitien office declared a state of emergency as heavy rains began to fall and it was clear that low-lying neighborhoods where we have public and household toilets would be flooded, as they were in 2012 and 2013. Official news sources are stating that 12....
Learning to Save Lives
By Marion Cherrak, SOIL Cap-Haitien Project Coordinator Haiti is a country prone to seismic events and hurricanes, as we saw in the early 2000s when four massive tropical storms were followed by the tragic 2010 earthquake. Soil erosion, together with high rainfall, can lead to landslides. In....
SOIL at World Water Week
It's no secret that here at SOIL, we love poop and its resource potential. The creation of compost, and the revenue it generates, is an essential component of EkoLakay, SOIL's household toilet social business pilot. Fortunately, we're not alone in our appreciation. This year's World Water Week, one....
In Loving Memory of Severe
Jean Franquel Dime, known to us as Severe, worked with SOIL since the organizations humble beginnings in 2006 until the day that he passed away, on Wednesday September 22, 2014. Severe was a father to five children and a husband to his wife, Ocilia Pierre. For us at SOIL, he was a dear friend, an....