Through our container-based sanitation (CBS) services in Haiti, SOIL is not only delivering safe and dignified sanitation to thousands of people in dense urban neighborhoods but also helping mitigate climate change. How? Rather than waste going into a pit latrine or septic tank (both of which have....
A special thanks to our friends at the UC Merced Agroecology Lab led by Dr. Rebecca Ryals and Julie Celestin for conducting this research in partnership with SOIL Haiti and furthering the sectoral knowledge base for ecological sanitation. Context Aerobic composting of human feces has been shown to....
A couple of weeks ago, SOIL’s research team met with our partners at Aquaya to explore what sanitation service demand looks like among Cap-Haitien residents who are: Not EkoLakay clients. Are actively seeking a sanitation solution for their household. Currently have a household toilet (such as a pit....
Funders who want to drive genuine impact invest in solutions like SOIL—efforts that partner with and reinforce public-sector goals to build and sustain essential services at scale. SOIL’s contribution to city-wide sanitation in Northern Haiti has taken many different forms in the last 19 years. Our....
For many of us who have committed our lives to building a more just and equitable society, the world seems to be shifting beneath our feet. We know valiant partners who have lost funding, families who are struggling as vital lifelines are disrupted, and committed workers who live in fear of job loss....
Jumping into a new relationship can be nerve-wracking. Will we share the same values? Will they grow with us? Will they embrace our quirks? But sometimes, things just click—like they did with SOIL and our new partner Who Gives a Crap , an innovative toilet paper company on a mission to make a....
“Haiti is a developing country, and faces constant, significant challenges, but you cannot take away the Haitian people’s aspiration for a better future.” - Winnie Felix-Jean SOIL Research Director At SOIL, we view sanitation as part of a larger framework of systems and partnerships that enable more....
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....
As households and communities grapple with the aftermath of intense flooding in Cap-Haïtien , SOIL’s team has risen to the challenge of ensuring access to safe sanitation for EkoLakay clients, despite many obstacles. Early this month, the northern coast of Haiti was lashed by torrential rain. By....
Over the past decade, the SOIL research and operations teams have experimented with windrow composting as a way to expedite our composting process. When we first started conducting research on windrow composting methods in 2022 we had about 8,000 people on the EkoLakay service. Since then we have....
