SOIL is honored to announce that we were selected as a recipient of the Grand Challenges Canada Rising Stars in Global Health Award. SOIL's innovative new program to develop and implement a social business model for household sanitation services in Haiti is being recognized alongside 68 other "Stars....
By Rich Flammer in BioCycle, November 2012, Vol. 53, No. 11, p. 34 A low cost system of resource management such as composting toilets is helping to mitigate many of Haiti’s social and ecological challenges. The Caribbean Republic of Haiti — the poorest, most environmentally degraded country in the....
By Jennifer Yang in The Toronto Star, November 22nd, 2012. When it comes to tackling some of Haiti’s most afflicting problems, Sasha Kramer has an elegant idea involving large quantities of a rather indelicate substance: poop. Lots of poop. Buckets of the stuff. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of....
Join Regional Director Theo on his latest Adventure in EcoSan as he journeys through the streets of Shada with longtime SOIL friend and community activist Madanm Bwa, raising awareness about the risks of cholera and methods to prevent its transmission. The message that Madanm Bwa brings is....
By Dumas Maçon in Le Nouvelliste, November 16, 2012 Surpopulation, insalubrité et territoire sauvagement habité, plusieurs quartiers de la ville du Cap-Haïtien offrent le lugubre spectacle d’une région en déliquescence. Les bidonvilles pullulent et les populations habitant les ravines fourmillent....
Dear friends and supporters, We would like to start by thanking those of you who contributed to SOIL over the past month. We had a record breaking number of individuals who responded to our calls for support and as a result our toilets remained open and all of our hardworking staff have been paid....
In January 2012, SOIL partnered with Trees, Water & People, Positive Legacy, and Jam Cruise passengers to plant thousands of fruit trees in northern Haiti using SOIL's EcoSan compost (human manure, aka "humanure"). These citrus trees have matured and are now being planted. But, local community....
Last Thursday SOIL was proud to host our first ecological sanitation training of the fall at our beautiful Port-au-Prince office. The majority of participants were Haitian but several other countries were represented including France, Ireland and Burkina Faso. The event was attended by 16 budding....
The rain started on the evening of November 8 and fell for 2 days straight. A combination of deforested hillsides and inadequate drainage meant that the city of Cap Haitien was flooding within hours. SOIL’s office in the center of downtown was surrounded by canals of dirty water, over 3 feet deep in....
Today was a sunny day in Port-au-Prince and the SOIL office there celebrated the arrival of new office chickens, but the rains kept pouring down in northern Haiti and Cap-Haitien's streets are flooding. Due to poor internet connection it took us most of the day to get these photos and videos....