Beverly

Meet Beverly, SOIL’s Port-au-Prince EkoLakay Director

Feature photo: Vic Hinterlang You may remember Beverly from her interview with RFI earlier this spring where she talked with other public health experts about the vital importance of safely managing waste in Haiti. Beverly joined SOIL’s team in January 2018 as an EkoLakay Coordinator and her....

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at the office

All Under One Roof

Here's where SOIL's teams have been working in northern Haiti since 2013 We’re moving! Since 2013, SOIL’s Cap-Haïtien team has operated out of an office we built from the ground up on a beautiful piece of land just down the road from our composting waste treatment facilities. Over the past six years....

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Tilary

A Cohort of Social Enterprises Building a Sustainable Future

SOIL is proud to be participating in the Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI) at Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. GSBI works with social entrepreneurs from around the world on their business plan, financial model, and growth plan. We’re honored to join an....

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Collector is Cap

RFI Talks Public Health with SOIL

What impact does environmental degradation have on public health in Haiti? Last month, SOIL's Port-au-Prince EkoLakay Director, Beverly Pierre, had the opportunity to answer that question on one of the world's most widely broadcast radio stations, Radio France Internationale (RFI). Joining other....

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In Loving Memory of our Dear Colleague Franck Grégoire

To read the post in English, please scroll down. Nan memwa Franck Grégoire, yon kòlèg nou pap janm bliye. Se avèk anpil tristès ke nap pataje nouvèl lanmò yon kòlèg nou, Franck Grégoire, ki pèdi lavi l anba bal bandi nan fen mwa Janvye 2019. Grégoire te entegre ekip Konpostaj Okap nan lane 2016 la....

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Containers

ReThink: Cities Without Sewers

Photo: Caleb Alcénat/Labelimage for Project #WasteNot (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). "Where conventional sanitation is out of reach, old methods paired with new science can get human waste safely back in the ground, with environmental benefits and more. A project in Haiti is leading the way for cities without....

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compost & plants

Restoring Soils in our own Backyard

SOIL’s household sanitation service was designed with nature as our guide, and as such, as we expand the reach of EkoLakay in urban Haiti, we’re producing more of the compost that makes its way back to the soil to support critically needed restoration efforts. After centuries of deforestation and....

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CBS

New World Bank Report Explores Impact of SOIL’s Sanitation Service

Business as usual in sanitation isn’t working, argues the World Bank. In cities experiencing rapid urbanization, they suggest that “the traditional approach to urban sanitation, premised on extending sewerage networks and building wastewater treatment plants, will not be sufficient to deliver....

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lockdown

Keeping EkoLakay Active in a Country on Lockdown

An Update from Haiti Though coverage in the international media remains scarce, Haiti is now entering day 10 of a deepening political crisis that follows months of increasingly challenging conditions faced by the majority of the population. Inflation has been spiraling out of control, making it even....

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Join CBSA at AfricaSan/FSM5

SOIL is excited to be in Cape Town this week with some of the world's leading sustainable sanitation practitioners at AfricaSan/FSM5. If you're in South Africa for the conference, see the event flyers below and be sure to join us for one of the events hosted by the Container-Based Sanitation....

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