Dear Friends, The holiday season makes us particularly grateful for family, and that has certainly been the case with our SOIL family this month. Opportunities to support one another have abounded - from our Cap-Haitien team moving to their new office to the Port-au-Prince staff pitching in at the....
By Rob Goodier at Engineering for Change. Read the original article here. Sasha Kramer's enthusiasm for recycling poop is contagious. After hearing from her, it's not hard to imagine the need to give your indoor bathroom a Stone-Age renovation. She developed EcoSan latrines that store human waste in....
By Elisa Birnbaum for SEE Change Magazine. Read the original article here. Four years after the devastating earthquake hit the nation, killing 250,000 people, Haiti is still struggling to regain its footing. It is said that more than 300,000 Haitians remain in temporary shelter, criminal activity....
By Nick Kennedy of SciDev.Net. Read the original article here. Bill and Melinda Gates’s competition to produce a high-tech toilet for the developing world has been questioned by toilet experts. An environmental engineer and an NGO worker have criticised the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for....
Transformation Since SOIL's inception in 2006, transformation has always been one of our core values - transformation of wastes into resources, of disempowered people into community leaders, of barren landscapes into lush, productive gardens. Our Composting Waste Treatment Facility at Trutier, on....
SOIL's work in Haiti was recently recognized by The Nature Conservancy / Rare Conservation Solution Search which highlighted the innovative ways people around the world are adapting to the impacts of climate change. At a beautiful ceremony in Washington, D.C., SOIL Agronomist Jean-Marie Noel....
This November a small team from SOIL traveled to the 2013 International Permaculture Congress taking place in Cuba to take a Permaculture Design Course (PDC). Permaculture is an ecological design system for increasing sustainability in all aspects of our lives from growing more food, restoring....
By Kathlee Freeman in Food Tank. November 29, 2013. Read the original article. Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit organization “dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti.” Co-founded in 2006 by Dr....
This year, SOIL is thrilled to have holiday gift options to suit everyone: 1. Robbie Simon Jewelry's new Diyite Collection "Diyite," the Haitian Creole word for dignity, is a new collection launched by Robbie Simon Jewelry to benefit SOIL. The Diyite collection includes both handcrafted jewelry made....
"In Haiti, there’s a worker called a bayakou. The bayakou comes in the middle of the night to clean latrines, which generally get shoveled out only once every year or so... Few people ever see a bayakou. In fact, he has a status somewhere between a magical, fairy-tale figure and an untouchable." -....