We’ve been gearing up all week for the celebration of Haiti's Labor and Agriculture Day, which falls every year on the first of May. As two-thirds of Haitians farm, this holiday highlights the significance of agriculture to the structure of life here. It is one of my favorite times of the year here....
SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti. Impact. If you spend much time reading about non-profits or NGOs these days, you're sure to come across that word pretty often. And for good reason - it's....
Here at SOIL, we love transforming waste of all kinds. Though poop is always a favorite, we're also working to promote composting of kitchen waste and vegetable scraps, which is easy for anyone to do at home. In Theo Talks Episode 27, our resourceful north Haiti Regional Director, Theo Huitema....
Over the past few months, loyal readers of the SOIL blog may have noticed several posts about SOIL's growing partnership with the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross, in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, first approached SOIL last summer to design and lead a series of trainings....
We are pleased to announce that our Cap-Haitien Agricultural Director, Romel Toussaint, has been awarded a scholarship to the Ecology Action six month internship! In this program, participants get involved in hands-on research in sustainable agriculture and closed-system food production using GROW....
SOIL is pleased to welcome Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan, Co-Directors of The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's (OAEC) Permaculture & Ecological Design program in California to Haiti! OAEC and SOIL were originally brought together by our dear friends at the 11th Hour Project who are committed....
We're very pleased to announce that SOIL's Executive Director and Co-Founder, Dr. Sasha Kramer, has been named a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year i n recognition of her groundbreaking work developing new social business models for the ecological and financially sustainable....
In the last weeks of winter, parades, glitter, masks, Rara bands, and dancing in the streets abound in Haiti. The weeks preceding the Christian season of Lent (which is frequently observed as a season of abstinence and discipline) feature ebullient Carnaval celebrations around the country. Each year....
Business is booming for SOIL's new mobile toilet enterprise! The mobile toilets, which are donated port-a-potties that our sanitation team has retrofitted with SOIL's simple EcoSan technology, are our newest income-generating project. Along with our household toilet pilot business, compost sales....
How do we ensure that people around the globe have access to clean water? How can water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs be effectively implemented in vulnerable communities? And why is track record of international WASH initiatives marked by profound failures? These questions were at the....
