(Published January 9, 2013 for the Women in the World Foundation. By Sam Ritholtz) The third anniversary of the cataclysmic Haiti earthquake—a monster that registered 7.0 on the Richter scale, killed 300,000 people and displaced more than 1 million—is coming up on January 12 and with it will come a....
SOIL has reached another “turning point” in our composting career! The construction of our three new glasiers (a drying station for the final states of compost production) at our composting site in Mochinette was finished last week, just in time for the emptying of compost bin #1! After three rather....
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a US 501-c3 non-profit, based in Haiti since 2006. With a mission to transform wastes into resources, SOIL has spent the last 6 years working with communities to develop sustainable sanitation solutions where human wastes are converted into....
By Rob Sirrine, Traverse City Record-Eagle, December 22, 2012 Even before the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti two years ago killing more than 220,000 people and displacing millions, the ecological and humanitarian situation in Haiti was dire. Erosion and topsoil loss resulting from extensive....
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. Dear Friends, Many of you who have supported us through the years are familiar with the community of Shada. Some of you may have even been lucky enough to....
Today the SOIL team was thrilled to present Marie Mineuve Felissant, one of our public toilet managers, with an award for excellent work and exceptional commitment to SOIL's mission of providing safe and dignified sanitation to people throughout Haiti. Ms. Felissant manages one of the SOIL toilet....
More on the Secret Life of Poop Coming Soon in HD! Talking about poop can be tricky. But not for Theo and the SOIL team! In Haiti (and many places around the world) human waste is considered taboo, and people dance around the subject nervously, treating it like a terrible secret. Most languages have....
Some encouraging (and tasty) news from the SOIL gardens at Penye. We have harvested our latest crop of green peppers, planted in evenly sized, spaced, and watered plots, but with one important difference: one plot was planted with no compost, one was planted with 3 pounds of SOIL compost per foot....
Dear Friends, The holidays are almost upon us, and the SOIL offices in both Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien are buzzing with excitement. Last week in Shada, Cap-Haitien, we officially launched the household toilet project with the installation of 143 household toilets. In Port-au-Prince we have sold....
As regular readers of the SOIL blog will already know, SOIl was lucky enough to be awarded the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification's Land for Life Award for our land rehabilitation projects in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien. The award was officially presented last week in Doha, Qatar....