Cover photo: Vic Hinterlang Though there’s ongoing debate about the extent and proximate cause of the challenge, what is clear is that Haiti’s mountainsides are deforested to dangerous levels and the country’s farmers struggle to produce enough to feed its people, in part due to depleted soils. As a....

Photo: Bernard Cherelus At SOIL we believe that having access to a toilet is a basic human right. Having access to a toilet provides a feeling of dignity. Household toilets increase safety for women and girls and they are critical for preventing waterborne diseases. Because of lack of access to....

This article is reposted from an original guest blog post on Trees, Water & People on September 30, 2013. It’s been quite a year so far for SOIL! Among our many activities, we’re currently building a new office for our Cap-Haitien team in order to be closer to the SOIL farm and to reduce our long....

SOIL has launched a campaign with Trees Water People to plant 10,000 trees in Haiti in the coming year with SOIL's own humanure compost. This project is part of our EcoSan initiative to not only collect and treat human waste, but to reincorporate it back into the earth, increasing productivity with....