A week and a half ago the lovely visitors from the 11 th Hour Project came on an extensive tour to visit our toilet sites, compost site, and farm in northern Haiti. We started off visiting three urban neighborhoods in Cap-Haitien (Shada, Fourgerolle, and Aviation) each with populations between 7,000....
Yesterday, SOIL's Sasha Kramer presented a paper at the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) 36th WEDC International Conference entitled "Thermophilic composting of human wastes in uncertain urban environments: a case study from Haiti". Co-written by Sasha Kramer, Nick Preneta and....
SOIL is thrilled to announce that we recently had two papers published by the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) that are being presented today and tomorrow at the 36th WEDC International Conference. Today, Anthony Kilbride, a former SOIL employee and current (lifelong) SOIL....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo visits with the SOIL cow – Uit (named after Theo H-UIT-ema) - out at the SOIL experimental garden and farm near Limonade. Join Theo as he questions the meaning of life thinly veiled as a study in....
One year ago, in June 2012, we packed up our Port-au-Prince office in Delmas 33 and moved around the corner to a beautiful building with more space for our growing team. The building itself was ideal, but our new backyard was a muddy mess full of debris and mosquito-breeding standing water. In short....
We at SOIL are very proud to announce the graduation of Marckindy V. Etienne, SOIL’s first Agricultural Intern, with a degree in Ingénieur Agronome (Agronomy). He earned his degree at Université Chrétienne du Nord d'Haiti in Limbè, Cap-Haitien. Marckindy originally hails from the town of Acul du....
Dear Friends, First and foremost we want to thank you for helping us to replace the Port-au-Prince Poopmobile. This was our most successful fundraising campaign to date, and we were inspired and humbled by your generosity and belief in our work. The new Poopmobile started making its first rounds....
Are you a travel agent? Or do you know someone who loves SOIL and could help us to keep our costs down by finding good travel deals for us? In exchange for occasional help arranging international travel for SOIL staff presenting at conferences or volunteers coming to Haiti, SOIL will feature your....
For many years now we've had the delightful privilege of running into the indomitable Bev Bell around Haiti, and we have always been impressed by her tireless spirt and her drive to fight for the rights of this beautiful country. We don't normally use our blog to announce new books that aren't about....
Yesterday, June 5th, was World Environment Day, and SOIL joined with groups around Haiti in celebrating positive environmental action. In Port-au-Prince, activities focused on bringing the benefits of SOIL's EcoSan compost back to the EcoSan toilet users. SOIL's sanitation services are subsidized by....
