In the last weeks of winter, parades, glitter, masks, Rara bands, and dancing in the streets abound in Haiti. The weeks preceding the Christian season of Lent (which is frequently observed as a season of abstinence and discipline) feature ebullient Carnaval celebrations around the country. Each year....
Business is booming for SOIL's new mobile toilet enterprise! The mobile toilets, which are donated port-a-potties that our sanitation team has retrofitted with SOIL's simple EcoSan technology, are our newest income-generating project. Along with our household toilet pilot business, compost sales....
How do we ensure that people around the globe have access to clean water? How can water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs be effectively implemented in vulnerable communities? And why is track record of international WASH initiatives marked by profound failures? These questions were at the....
By Sasha Kramer, in Food Tank, March 16, 2014 Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is an organization based in Haiti that was founded in 2006 with a mission of ensuring nutrients for all through the transformation of wastes into resources, or more precisely by turning poop into soil. We....
[ Read this information in English.] SOIL òganize tanzantan atelye pou montre SOIL sèvi ak teknoloji sanitasyon ekolojik (EkoSan) an Ayiti. Fòmasyon sa gen ladan yon rezime de pwogram yo nou, kom pa egzamp: teknoloji ke nou sèvi, leson nou te aprann nan developman teknoloji sa, e pwopozisyon pou....
[ Li enfòmasyon sa a an kreyòl ayisyen.] SOIL conducts regular one-day workshops on how SOIL’s use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) technology in Haiti. This workshop includes an overview of SOIL’s programs, technologies used, lessons learned, and implementation suggestions. Workshops are held in....
Dear Friends, Just a few short months ago, we wrote to you about how the SOIL team has transformed a section of Trutier in the Port-au-Prince city dump. While we’re happy to have created a lovely, lush little outpost in the sea of trash and rubble, we’re even prouder of what happens there every day....
Dear friends, Just a few short months ago, I wrote to you about how the SOIL team has transformed a section of Trutier in the Port-au-Prince city dump. While we're happy to have created a lovely, lush little outpost in the sea of trash and rubble, we're even prouder of what happens there every day....
SOIL is happy to announce that we are now offering consultancy services in Haiti and abroad. These consultancies will allow SOIL to share valuable knowledge and experience gained in implementing Ecological Sanitation in both emergency and non-emergency contexts. In addition to our core experience in....
Haiti has often been referred to as the Republic of NGOs - no one knows exactly how many programs exist in the country, but there are easily thousands, maybe tens of thousands, operating in this country of nine million people. In this environment, NGOs can get caught up in competition with other....