EcoSan Education


Fòmasyon Sanitasyon Ekolojik: 9 Mas, 2017

[Click here to read this information in English.] Akòz sikonstans enprevi, SOIL te anile fòmasyon sa a. Nou pral pataje enfòmasyon depi nou fikse yon nouvo dat. Mèsi pou konpreyansyon nou. Detanzantan, SOIL oganize atelye pou pataje eksperyans ak konesans nou genyen ak teknoloji Sanitasyon Ekolojik (EkoSan) an Ayiti Fomasyon sa genyen ladan yon rezime de pwogram nou yo, pa egzamp: teknoloji ke nou sevi, leson nou te aprann nan devlopman tekonoloji sa yo, e pwopozisyon nou genyen pou amelyore koman teknoloji sa yo ka aplike pi byen. Enfòmasyon Atelye Dat: Jedi, ...

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SOIL Ecological Sanitation Training: March 9, 2017

[Li enfòmasyon sa a an kreyòl ayisyen.] Due to unforeseen circumstances SOIL has cancelled this training. We will share updated information when we have a date for our next training. Thank you for your understanding. SOIL conducts regular one-day workshops on SOIL’s use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) technology in Haiti. This workshop includes an overview of SOIL’s programs, technologies used, lessons learned, and implementation suggestions. Read more about past training sessions here.   Workshop Information Date Thursday, March 9, 2017 8:00 am - ...

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SOIL Ecological Sanitation Training: November 16, 2016

[Li enfòmasyon sa a an kreyòl ayisyen.] SOIL conducts regular one-day workshops on SOIL’s use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) technology in Haiti. This workshop includes an overview of SOIL’s programs, technologies used, lessons learned, and implementation suggestions. Read more about past training sessions here.   Workshop Information Date Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Location Delmas 31, Port-au-Prince Language Haitian Creole Tentative Agenda 8:00 – 8:30: Registration 8:30 – 9:50: Welcome, Introduction to Ecological ...

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Student SOIL Advocates Build an Awareness Toilet

For the last four years, Miami Beach Senior High senior Cheldina Jean has been preparing to exhibit an Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) toilet in a public space to call attention to the fact that over 1/3 of the world’s population does not have access to improved sanitation and nearly one billion people are without safe drinking water. Cheldina learned about Ecological Sanitation by joining the high school service club, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods at Miami Beach Senior High, or SOIL@MBSH, and she has come to appreciate the ways in which EcoSan captures the ...

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SOIL Featured in Hystra Report, “Designing the Next Generation of Sanitation Businesses”

The world is experiencing a global sanitation crisis, and the majority of available sanitation technologies are dependent on scarce water resources, cause a cascade of negative environmental consequences, have prohibitively high start-up costs, and are financially unsustainable. The effects of this crisis are particularly devastating in Haiti, where diarrhea accounts for 16% of deaths in children under 5. In order to address this crisis, a small group of innovative non-profits (including SOIL!) and social businesses are beginning to test the paradigm-shifting hypothesis ...

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Letters to SOIL: From Toilets to Tuition

A few months ago, Tim Myers, the Co-Founder of the Haiti School Project, reached out to SOIL for help. Tim and HSP work with Foyer Divin School, which, like many schools in Haiti, lacks safe toilets for its students. Foyer Divin and HSP are working on a plan for constructing toilets to address this sanitation issue, and the Parent Committee (which makes many important decisions for the school) wanted some education on composting toilets and ecological sanitation. So last Friday, SOIL's Port-au-Prince office dispatched our Sanitation Director (Bobo) and Coordinator ...

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SOIL Fòmasyon EkoSan 3 Jiye

[Read this information in English.] SOIL òganize tanzantan atelye pou montre SOIL sèvi ak teknoloji sanitasyon ekolojik (EkoSan) an Ayiti. Fòmasyon sa gen ladan yon rezime de pwogram yo nou, kom pa egzamp: teknoloji ke nou sèvi, leson nou te aprann nan developman teknoloji sa, e pwopozisyon pou amelyore koman teknoloji sa ka aplike pi byen.     Enfòmasyon Dat Jedi, 3 Jiye 2014 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Location Rita's Guesthouse, Rue Empereur # 5 Delmas 33, Potopwens (klike sou adres la pou gade yon kat) Lang Nou pral ofri atelye sa an kreyol. Ajanda 8:00 ...

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SOIL EcoSan Training on July 3rd

[Li enfòmasyon sa a an kreyòl ayisyen.] SOIL conducts regular one-day workshops on SOIL’s use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) technology in Haiti. This workshop includes an overview of SOIL’s programs, technologies used, lessons learned, and implementation suggestions. Read more about past training sessions here.       Workshop Information Date Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Location Rita's Guesthouse, Rue Empereur # 5 Delmas 33, Port-au-Prince (click on the address to see a map) Language This workshop will be offered in Haitian ...

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SOIL Welcomes the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center

SOIL is pleased to welcome Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan, Co-Directors of The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's (OAEC) Permaculture & Ecological Design program in California to Haiti! OAEC and SOIL were originally brought together by our dear friends at the 11th Hour Project who are committed to solving global problems by fostering new connections. This visit is an exciting development in an ongoing SOIL/OAEC collaboration that started when 11th Hour sponsored members of SOIL to attend the Permaculture Design Certification course that Brock taught at the ...

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SOIL Fòmasyon EkoSan 28 Mas

[Read this information in English.] SOIL òganize tanzantan atelye pou montre SOIL sèvi ak teknoloji sanitasyon ekolojik (EkoSan) an Ayiti. Fòmasyon sa gen ladan yon rezime de pwogram yo nou, kom pa egzamp: teknoloji ke nou sèvi, leson nou te aprann nan developman teknoloji sa, e pwopozisyon pou amelyore koman teknoloji sa ka aplike pi byen. Atelye yo fèt nan Pòtopwens ak Òkap, e nou ofri yo nan anglè e kreyol an wotasyon.  Sa vlé di: yon fwa an anglè e lot fwa an kreyol.   Enfòmasyon Dat Vandredi, 28 Mas 8:00 am - 3:00 pm Location Route Grand Trou, ...

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