Today is World Food Day, a day dedicated to eradicating world hunger that affects more than 842 million people around the world. It's an important day to us here at SOIL because Haiti is one of the most food-insecure nations in the world - in 2010, only Eritrea, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic....
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“Leanne Francois!” “Louis Isemona!” “Belle Marie Michelle!” These are amongst the winners of our first Toilet Raffle last Friday. Everyone who paid their bill on time for our household toilets was automatically entered - 97 families in total. Ten names were drawn and each winning household received....
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 is excited to announce a new collaboration with the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti. After experiencing a technical issue in one of their waste collection tanks, Caracol approached SOIL's Cap-Haitien office about collecting and composting the wastes from the tank to allow for Caracol....
It’s a warm, sunny day here in the SOIL Cap-Haitien office. We’re bustling with activities: building a new office, expanding our toilet service network, and of course – making compost. Since we opened our permanent compost site last year, we’ve filled 18 bins with a mix of human waste and cover....
In October last year, SOIL and our partners at re.Source Sanitation launched a new project to build toilets throughout the Shada neighborhood of Cap-Haitien. In exchange for a small monthly user fee, SOIL regularly picks up toilet wastes and delivers them to a SOIL compost site for safe treatment....
The world of composting toilets is full of different models and technologies. At SOIL we strive to design toilet models that are desirable to the users and affordably constructed entirely from locally-available materials. Almost all SOIL toilets use urine diversion (also known as UD) funnels which....
For the past five years SOIL has been renting a beautiful downtown building in Cap-Haitien that has served as our northern Haiti office. This building has many benefits: it's conveniently close to the urban neighborhoods we work in and also close to the bus station, the airport, our partner....
Summer in Haiti is dominated by the “Fèt Champèt,” an annual town festival centered around a patron saint. The Fèt Champèt for each town means a celebration for their patron saint with multiple days of music, dancing, games, great food and bustling markets, accompanied often by vodou festivities on....
