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....
SOIL and the Outcomes for Change Fund was recently featured in an article by Le Nouvelliste . Launched in 2022 by IDB Lab , the Outcomes for Change Fund (OCF) is the first results-based fund in a fragile island state (Haiti). This cutting-edge funding mechanism is designed to scale effective....
In 2019 SOIL was awarded the Innovation Impact Grant by Expo Live, an innovation and partnership program launched by Expo 2020 Dubai, for our sustainable social enterprise solution to sanitation in Haiti. The goal of this grant is to provide support to help grow social enterprises and projects and....
En Haïti, nous avons eu notre première station d'épuration des eaux noires dans la capitale en 2010, et depuis, elle n'est toujours pas fonctionnelle. De plus, ce système ne permet pas d'assurer le traitement de toutes les eaux noires produites à Port-au-Prince, sans parler du cas des autres villes....
By Genevra Pittman, Onearth Magazine, November 18, 2010 When Haiti’s cholera outbreak hit tent camps around Port-au-Prince in early November, Sasha Kramer was ready. Kramer is the executive director of SOIL ( Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), an organization she co-founded in 2006. SOIL’s....
By Emily Troutman, AOL News, August 24, 2010 Amy Ross navigates the filthy, feces-strewn backstreets here in flip-flops and a miniskirt, bobbing along quite happily, giving the distinct impression that she's either been in this city too long or not long enough. Ross is a program manager for....
By Alexandra Phanor-Faury, Essence, February 2, 2010 Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Haitians and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. SOIL promotes integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction. They do this by working closely with community organizations and activists in Haiti. Even before the quake, Haiti lacked adequate sanitation facilities. Huge piles of trash would collect in streets with no sign of being picked up. People are forced to dispose trash in rivers, oceans and even in abandoned houses. You can imagine how the sanitation problem has worsened after the quake.
By Nicholas D. Kristof, the New York Times, December 23, 2009 SOIL, www.oursoil.org, is bringing dry, composting toilets to Haiti. Run by two remarkable American women, SOIL operates on a shoestring budget in impoverished communities. One aim is to improve sanitation and public health. Another is to compost waste so that it can be safely used as fertilizer to boost agricultural production.
By Matt Davis, Reed Magazine, Summer 2009 In the annals of public relations, it must be reckoned a signal achievement to persuade a skeptical New York Times reporter to stick his nose in a bucket of poop. But Sasha Kramer ’99 pulled off this reverse form of gotcha journalism with ease in March when....
By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, March 28, 2009 As America’s unemployment rate rises, those paying the severest price aren’t necessarily in Detroit or Miami. One of the newest street children here in this northern Haitian city is a 10-year-old boy whose father was working in Florida but lost....
