Dear friends, Another month gone by and so much has happened. Our nurseries are blooming, our team is growing closer every day and our toilets are still open, thanks to you. Last week we wrote to you to reach out for emergency support and you have overwhelmed us with your generosity. SOIL is facing....
Hello SOIL supporters! Our friend Gael from the non-profit organization CHIBAS, is in need of a few things for his laboratory here in Haiti. Do you have any extra lab equipment looking for a good home? CHIBAS is a research center on bio-energy and sustainable agriculture with the goal of improving....
Dear Friends, Six years ago, SOIL was a small organization building toilets throughout northern Haiti whenever our friends and family could wire us a few dollars. Month by month we slowly expanded the use of ecological sanitation around the country and grew the size of our composting waste treatment....
Over two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital, almost 400,000 people still live in displacement camps under shredded plastic tarps and tattered tents. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence and face high rates of rape in the camps. Many lack access to....
Dear Friends of SOIL, Jenny Benorden, a former SOIL board member, is hosting a fundraiser in the Bay Area with all proceeds to benefit SOIL. She asked us to invite our friends and colleagues in the area, so if you (or any of your friends) will be near Palo Alto, CA on Sunday, August 19th, you should....
More than over 150 people from over 50 groups, organizations and government ministries attended the first ever Sustainable Sanitation Conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a forum to exchange ideas, lessons-learned, and discuss development of national standards for sanitation provision. SOIL is proud....
By the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in the UNCCD News Issue 4.2/4.3, March-June 2012. When confronted with two or more related challenges – let’s say from the fields of biodiversity and desertification – the ability to multi-task is often essential. But it’s difficult to....
Written by our friends at re.source – a start-up team based out of Stanford University, funded by a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase 1 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The re.source team is partnering with SOIL to help design an improved household EcoSan toilet and a social....
Written by our friends at re.source - a start-up team based out of Stanford University, funded by a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase 1 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The re.source team is partnering with SOIL to help design an improved household EcoSan toilet and a social....
That’s right, our beloved Regional Director, Theo Huitema, has now officially become a shining example of our organizational mission to transform wastes into resources by building his home inside our old compost bins in Limonade, northern Haiti. In January 2012, the mayor of Limonade asked SOIL to....