At SOIL, our mission is to expand safe sanitation access to every corner of Cap-Haïtien. But what happens when the neighborhoods we want to serve are up steep and densely vegetated hills that our Poopmobile collection vehicles (as heroic as they are) simply can’t climb? Our fleet of three-wheelers....
To address the gap in accessible sanitation options, SOIL has been working for nearly two decades to provide household toilet and waste treatment services across Cap-Haïtien. Collecting client feedback drives our continuous improvement, and we are happy to present a selection of recent testimonials....
SOIL is honored to be featured in IDBLab’s article, "The Success Story of the Outcomes for Change Fund" , authored by Jean Emmanuel Desmornes , Senior Private Sector Development Specialist at IDB Lab. This article highlights SOIL’s participation as an implementing partner of IDB Lab's Outcomes for....
Inside SOIL Haiti: The Movement Changing Sanitation If you are in need of a dose of inspiration, we recommend watching Centre NGO’s latest feature on the SOIL sanitation service in Haiti. This compelling video offers an intimate look inside of the brilliant minds of senior EkoLakay managers Romel....
SOIL is thrilled to announce the launch of Phase 2 of our groundbreaking partnership with IDB Lab’s Outcomes for Change Fund (OCF) in Haiti, the first large-scale Outcomes Fund to be implemented in a fragile country context and small island developing state. Over the course of Phase 1 of the project....
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....
In October 2023, SOIL launched a baseline survey study to collect and compile data points on sanitation access and behavior in the zones targeted for expansion in our pilot with IDB Lab’s Outcomes for Change Fund in Haiti. Comparing collected data around toilet ownership and open defecation....
Sanitation is SOIL’s business and our passion, and we understand that the provision of immediate sanitation access is all the more critical at this moment in Haiti’s history, given the ongoing and complex humanitarian crisis that continues to unfold. Despite unremitting challenges, the SOIL team has....
In the pursuit of advancing sanitation initiatives in Haiti, the SOIL research team recently completed a comprehensive population-level survey in Cap-Haitien as part of our Results-Based Financing (RBF) project . During SOIL’s initial conversations with IDB Lab regarding partnership around their....
The Haitian Education & Leadership Program ( HELP ) is an educational empowerment initiative in Port-au-Prince that provides underprivileged and promising young Haitians scholarships to universities in Haiti. We, at SOIL, truly admire HELP’s program, and are proud beneficiaries of the quality....
