One year ago, in June 2012, we packed up our Port-au-Prince office in Delmas 33 and moved around the corner to a beautiful building with more space for our growing team. The building itself was ideal, but our new backyard was a muddy mess full of debris and mosquito-breeding standing water. In short....
We at SOIL are very proud to announce the graduation of Marckindy V. Etienne, SOIL’s first Agricultural Intern, with a degree in Ingénieur Agronome (Agronomy). He earned his degree at Université Chrétienne du Nord d'Haiti in Limbè, Cap-Haitien. Marckindy originally hails from the town of Acul du....
Dear Friends, First and foremost we want to thank you for helping us to replace the Port-au-Prince Poopmobile. This was our most successful fundraising campaign to date, and we were inspired and humbled by your generosity and belief in our work. The new Poopmobile started making its first rounds....
Are you a travel agent? Or do you know someone who loves SOIL and could help us to keep our costs down by finding good travel deals for us? In exchange for occasional help arranging international travel for SOIL staff presenting at conferences or volunteers coming to Haiti, SOIL will feature your....
For many years now we've had the delightful privilege of running into the indomitable Bev Bell around Haiti, and we have always been impressed by her tireless spirt and her drive to fight for the rights of this beautiful country. We don't normally use our blog to announce new books that aren't about....
Yesterday, June 5th, was World Environment Day, and SOIL joined with groups around Haiti in celebrating positive environmental action. In Port-au-Prince, activities focused on bringing the benefits of SOIL's EcoSan compost back to the EcoSan toilet users. SOIL's sanitation services are subsidized by....
When we first rented land in the northern Haitian community of Mouchinette to build a new composting waste treatment facility a little over a year ago, the only thing on the property was a big mango tree. In the year since, the SOIL team has completely transformed the site into a beautiful....
Dear friends, At dawn on Monday morning, Clotes, SOIL's Poopmobile driver, will be pulling out of the SOIL's Port-au-Prince office gates in a new Poopmobile to do the biweekly toilet drum pickup in tent camps around the capital. The 5,000 people living in tent cities who currently count on SOIL's....
We recently received notice that we're one of two early prize winners in Ashoka's Nutrients for All contest! (Check out the Ashoka Press Release here). According to Ashoka, "The challenge is clear: we need innovative solutions that will ensure the availability of nutrients for healthy, natural....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo visits with the SOIL beekeepers as they begin the harrowing task of transferring the bees from the log that they arrived in to their freshly made hive boxes. Here's a quote from the video to give....