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....
SOIL is delighted to announce 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. We are thrilled to be part of the first cohort of partners to be....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
We are continuing to celebrate this Women’s History Month by sharing interviews with some of the incredible women staff we have working at SOIL. We are proud to be working at the forefront of providing dignified, formal livelihood opportunities to Haitian women in the sanitation sector. We celebrate....
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....
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....
