Summer in Haiti is dominated by the “Fèt Champèt,” an annual town festival centered around a patron saint. The Fèt Champèt for each town means a celebration for their patron saint with multiple days of music, dancing, games, great food and bustling markets, accompanied often by vodou festivities on....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema as he shares a laugh with the "heaps and heaps and heaps" of children in Shada (where SOIL has been working for many years to expand access to ecological sanitation). In this short adventure a kid hops a ride in a suitcase careening through Cap....
I'm Jimmy Louis, and I work as the full time Sanitation Coordinator for SOIL in Port-au-Prince. I was integrated into the SOIL family in 2010 after the earthquake. I've come to see that SOIL is not just an office where you come to work and then leave; SOIL is a school where you find many teachers....
[box type="shadow"] SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti.[/box] SOIL Thank you to the SOIL team because you taught me a lot. You showed me how to plant and how to protect the environment. You....
A week and a half ago the lovely visitors from the 11 th Hour Project came on an extensive tour to visit our toilet sites, compost site, and farm in northern Haiti. We started off visiting three urban neighborhoods in Cap-Haitien (Shada, Fourgerolle, and Aviation) each with populations between 7,000....
We now have an improved routine for getting water to our compost site in Port-au-Prince thanks to your outstanding response to our Poopmobile emergency donation drive in May! With the new Poopmobile, our compost team can transport multiple heavy cisterns of our own water several times a week rather....
By Haiti Grassroots Watch, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 24 July 2013 * Version en français Lack of financing for a ten-year cholera eradication plan means that the disease will likely be endemic to Haiti for years to come. Cholera bacteria are spread by contaminated food, water, and fecal matter. One of....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure. In this short video, Theo attempts to learn how to play marbles from the children of Shada (where SOIL has been working for many years to expand access to ecological sanitation). By the end, it's still not clear whether....
[box]SOIL is honored to have been shortlisted for the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge Award. This prestigious award recognizes innovative ideas to provide sustainable access to safe water and sanitation. The final winners will be announced in September. [/box] Reed Elsevier Environmental....
Dear Friends, Over the years SOIL has evolved into a humanitarian organization that focuses on sustainable social business solutions. Although we’re still in the early stages of experimentation, we believe we’re on the cusp of identifying low-cost toilet models and waste treatment options that do....