9 results for tag: SOIL Team

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 ...

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 Winnie: SOIL’s Research, Innovation and Advocacy Director

Winnie touring and working at SOIL's composting facility in Haiti We’re thrilled to introduce SOIL’s new Research, Innovation and Advocacy Director, Winnie Felix-Jean! Winnie comes to us with a background in microbiology and global public health advocacy and with many years of experience with both clinical research and project management. Winnie has worked as a clinical researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center where she was responsible for the planning and oversight of the myeloma and hematology services and also led clinical oncology trials. She has consulted for the UN World Food Programme and UNICEF and was a senior manager at IBM ...

Staff from SOIL and DINEPA Selected as 2023 Women In Sanitation

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)-led Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) initiated their Women in Sanitation campaign in 2020 with the intention of recognizing and celebrating the work of women sanitation professionals, creating a platform to share their stories, and inspiring other women to pursue a career in the field.  We are excited to report that four members of SOIL’s staff Algate Joseph, Yvrose Pailleur, Georgette François and Nazulia Dejoie, along with Edwidge Petit, DINEPA’s Director of Sanitation, were chosen to be featured in the 2023 campaign! TNUSSP will be posting interviews on their website ...

Envisioning and Planning for the Future

This past month, members of SOIL’s management teams gathered in Cap-Haitien to spend a few days digging into our long-term strategic planning and goals as an organization. The gathering was not only about addressing big questions, but also a wonderful opportunity to connect with one another and get rejuvenated and reaffirmed in our commitment to the work we are doing. This workshop was a rare and welcome opportunity to bring SOIL leadership together under one roof. The team was incredibly excited to have time to work “tèt ansanm” (or “heads together”), as they say in Haiti, especially after such a challenging year. We were also ...

Renewed hope in the new year and proud reflections of the past year

Members of the SOIL EkoLakay team. It’s the beginning of a new year and the SOIL team is heading into 2023 with renewed hope and mindful optimism. Despite the ongoing political, social & health-related challenges of last year that significantly impacted our staff and our customers, there are also great achievements to celebrate, particularly among the members of our team in Haiti, who, despite the considerable hardships, worked tirelessly and together and didn’t lose hope. We are deeply grateful to each and every one.  In October, when the first new cases of cholera were reported, SOIL sprang into action, understanding that our EkoLakay ...

A Conversation with SOIL’s Human Resources Director, Wisner Jean-Louis

Wisner Jean-Louis in the Cap-Haitien office The year continues to be a very challenging one in Haiti – full of uncertainties for all Haitians caught in the midst of political, social, and economic instability. As an organization we are proud of our field team's courage and dedication providing consistent access to life-saving and dignified sanitation services for some of Haiti’s most vulnerable families, despite the other uncertainties that impact daily life.  To give you a better sense of what motivates the SOIL team we are continuing to engage in conversations with members of our sanitation staff in Cap-Haitien to hear about how they are ...

Meet Beverly, SOIL’s new Sr. Sales Manager!

The SOIL team is incredibly pleased and proud to welcome back Beverly Pierre Accius in a new role as our Senior Sales Manager at the Cap-Haitien office.  Beverly has been an integral member of the SOIL team having held past positions with SOIL as Ekolakay Coordinator, EkoLakay Manager, and Senior Port au Prince Office Manager. Her passion, empathy and business savvy has helped our EkoLakay business grow and expand to reach new households that previously have not had sanitation access. We are excited to bring her long-time experience and entrepreneurial spirit into this critical role to position SOIL for continued scale.  We sat down with Beverly to ...

Meet Sadouddly

The SOIL team is pleased to announce the arrival of a new Waste Treatment Manager at our composting facility in Mouchinette. Sadouddly Michael Lambert is stepping into this position in the place of our long-time manager, Job Etienne, who is retiring from SOIL. Sadouddly joined SOIL a little over a month ago, and we recently had the opportunity to sit down and learn more about him and his responsibilities.   Tell us a little about yourself: I was born in Ouanaminthe, and I grew up in Cap-Haitien. I moved to the Dominican Republic to study electromechanical engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.   How did you hear about ...