42 results for tag: EkoLakay

Capacity Building Training for SOIL’s Sales Team

The SOIL sales team in training with a consultant from Whitten & Roy Partnership  SOIL is at the threshold of an exciting and hopeful moment as we prepare to significantly scale up our services in the coming months. As we do so, we are serious about maintaining a sustainable business model for household sanitation and recognize that in order to do so we must work to build on the skills, instincts, abilities and processes of our team. Focusing on developing the core assets of our team will allow us to become even more effective and efficient so that we can continue to increase our impact and streamline our operating costs.  To ensure we are ...

SOIL Welcomes CDC to Offices in Cap-Haitien

SOIL staff with CDC team members & EkoLakay clients Last month we were excited to welcome partners from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Haiti Country Office to the SOIL Sales Office in Cap-Haitien. CDC Program Director Dr. Delayo Zomahoun and Program Deputy Ken Chen met with SOIL’s Senior Sales Manager Beverly Pierre and EkoLakay Senior Manager Romel Toussaint to discuss SOIL’s business and sanitation model. The CDC Haiti team also had the opportunity to speak with several EkoLakay clients who shared testimonials about their experiences with SOIL’s service as a part of SOIL’s partnership with the agency.  ...

SOIL and IAF Meet Up in Fort Bourgeois

IAF staff and grantees with SOIL's Sadouddly Michael-Lambert SOIL was excited to have the opportunity to meet with staff members from the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) last month in Cap-Haitien. IAF is an independent US foreign assistance organization that invests in community-led grassroots development across Latin America and the Caribbean. Their work is focused on engaging local leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in underserved areas to create more prosperous, peaceful and democratic communities. IAF has been funding projects in Haiti since 1975 and currently have grantees in 9 of the country’s 10 departments. IAF’s grants are awarded ...

2023 Tourism Innovation Summit Kicks Off in Cap-Haitien

The Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) is a week-long event that is taking place this week in Cap-Haitien, July 3 - 8. The summit is an opportunity to facilitate and spark new ideas for the Haitian tourism sector. Long known as the Pearl of the Antilles, Haiti has struggled to build its tourism industry largely due to a lack of essential infrastructure and resources that the tourism and hospitality industry rely on. This summit helps bring the business community together to inspire collaboration, spur interest, and attract strategic investments in the Haitian tourism sector in order to support its sustainable growth and share the beauty of Haiti with the ...

Keurlit Charles Appointed EkoLakay Manager

The SOIL team is pleased to announce that Keurlit Charles has been named as our new EkoLakay Manager. Keurlit is stepping into the role after having spent the past two years as SOIL’s Field Operations Supervisor. Recently we had the opportunity to speak with him to learn more about his new role and responsibilities.  Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your family.  I grew up in a family of 6 in Trou du Nord. I am still living there with my parents and siblings. I am a former HELP scholar. I studied industrial engineering at Quiquesya University in Port-au-Prince. What is your working history at SOIL?  I heard about SOIL in ...

Meet Yvrose: EkoLakay Coordinator

At SOIL, women’s voices are at the forefront of our work. As a women-led social enterprise, we’re committed to gender equity in livelihood creation and in hiring women in all positions, making a significant effort to recruit female employees. During this Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the members of our staff (and DINEPA) who were selected as 2023 Women in Sanitation by sharing interviews and videos of these current history-makers that we are so proud to work alongside of.  Recently we spoke with Yvrose Pailleur, one of SOIL’s EkoLakay coordinators, about her life and her job and what it’s like to be a woman working in ...

SOIL Grows Through It All

A time-lapse map illustrates SOIL's household service growth from 2014 - 2022 Since its founding in 2007, SOIL has been working to provide regenerative and life-saving sanitation services to meet the vastly unmet need for improved sanitation in Haiti, particularly in urban and peri-urban areas. SOIL’s flagship household service, EkoLakay, was first piloted in Cap-Haitien in 2014, and since this time, has expanded to reach over 2,200 households, providing more than 13,000 people in urban Haiti with safely managed sanitation. Each and every household that joins our service is a milestone for us; and represents one more family that no longer has to ...

A conversation with SOIL’s Keurlit Charles

Keurlit Charles, SOIL's Field Operations Supervisor  We are continuing to engage in conversations with members of SOIL’s sanitation staff in Cap-Haitien to learn about the ways they are navigating the current situation in Haiti with their family and in their community.  This week, we spoke with Keurlit Charles, SOIL’s Field Operations Supervisor, to check in and hear how the ongoing crisis in Haiti is impacting his work and his home. Interviewer: How are you and your family doing right now?  Keurlit: Like every Haitian, my family and I fight to try to make a living. My family depends on my income from my job at SOIL because the other ...

A conversation with SOIL’s Romel Toussaint

Our Haitian staff members remain safe in Cap-Haitien as we continue to navigate the current challenges with a robust emergency response plan and an incredibly dedicated group of employees.  This week we spoke with Romel Toussaint, SOIL’s Senior Manager, about running the service during these challenging times, how his family is doing and how his work has changed with the ongoing crisis.  It almost goes without saying that Romel is one of SOIL’s tireless leaders - dedicated to supporting his staff, and working to ensure that service continues for every family with a SOIL toilet. We are deeply appreciative of his commitment, compassion and ...

Navigating the challenges in Haiti: A Conversation with SOIL’s EkoLakay Manager

Our Haitian staff members remain safe in Cap-Haitien as we continue to navigate the current challenges with a robust emergency response plan and an incredibly dedicated group of employees. The team has, against all odds, continued to provide weekly sanitation service to over 2000 households subscribed to the EkoLakay service.  We want to take the time to highlight a few of SOIL’s sanitation heroes who have tirelessly worked with adjusted schedules, often in the very early hours, to ensure that service continues for every family with a SOIL toilet. We're pleased to introduce EkoLakay Manager Sebastien Jabouin Jacques! Interviewer: How are ...