Sanitation is not an issue of privilege. It is not an optional upgrade to someone’s quality of life. It’s a human right. Haiti’s constitution declares that every citizen has the right to suitable housing . The United Nations agrees with this , stating that the lack of access to safe, sufficient, and....
This World Toilet Day, we’re excited to spotlight Sanima , an organizational partner that’s near and dear to SOIL’s heart. Based in Lima, Peru, Sanima provides container-based sanitation services to urban communities and informal settlements. For over a decade, SOIL and Sanima have worked together....
Last week, members of SOIL’s research team ( Winnie Felix-Jean and Maya Lubeck-Schricker ) had the opportunity to attend the 2024 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's annual Water and Health Conference . The Water and Health Conference, hosted by UNC’s Water Institute , is a key event that....
SOIL does a lot. But what exactly do we do, day in and day out? For the past 18 years, SOIL has been evolving, adapting, and growing as an organization in Cap-Haitien. Since our inception, we’ve explored different composting toilet technologies , restructured our business strategy to include a....
It’s the first month of a brand new year and the SOIL team is heading into 2024 with mindful optimism and a positive attitude. Despite the ongoing political, social & health-related challenges that have made significant impacts on our staff and our customers over the past several years, there are....
One of Haiti’s only safely managed sanitation options is SOIL’s EkoLakay sanitation service. Our Container Based Sanitation (CBS) model is uniquely suited to provide sanitation access in rapidly urbanizing informal settlements like those found in Cap-Haitien. CBS can be quickly deployed as an....
World Toilet Day , celebrated each year on November 19th, is SOIL’s favorite holiday because it’s about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis with the goal of reaching the 3.5 billion people in the world still living without safely managed sanitation. Each day in Haiti, SOIL’s....
In 2020 an exciting study on SOIL’s sanitation solution was published in Nature Climate Change and revealed the groundbreaking climate benefits of our container based sanitation (CBS) service, putting Haiti at the forefront of research at the intersection of sanitation and climate change. The....
SOIL’s partner, Global Water Intelligence (GWI), a global water industry publisher and event organizer, is always exploring new ways to push the water sector forward and share its findings with stakeholders in the industry. In an article in the latest installment of their newsletter , GWI....
SOIL’s Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, recently had the opportunity to participate in two global conferences where she was able to share more about the work SOIL is doing to provide localized, sustainable services for communities in Haiti to a global audience. SOIL is always excited to share....
