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New Kid on the Sanitation Block: Dioloto Madagascar

Join us in giving a warm welcome to Dioloto , a container-based sanitation service based in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar, and the newest member of the Container Based Sanitation Alliance ( CBSA ) family! Although we’re located nearly half a world apart, Dioloto has drawn close inspiration from SOIL’s....

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Strength in Community: SOIL's Flood Recovery Update

A key characteristic of a strong community is that neighbors show up for each other in times of struggle. SOIL is continually inspired by the displays of solidarity among our team and Cap-Haïtien’s residents. When unprecedented floods struck Cap-Haïtien in early December, it was many hands–driven by....

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Sanitation Soulmates: The Story of Sanima and SOIL

This World Toilet Day, we’re excited to spotlight Sanima , an organizational partner that’s near and dear to SOIL’s heart. Based in Lima, Peru, Sanima provides container-based sanitation services to urban communities and informal settlements. For over a decade, SOIL and Sanima have worked together....

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SOIL RESEARCHERS MAKE DATA PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Since the fall of 2022, Haiti has faced escalating instability, a scarcity of goods and services, and ongoing political unrest. While these challenges affect the population at large, it is often the country’s most vulnerable citizens who shoulder the heaviest burden during difficult times – their....

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Digital Tools & Sanitation: SOIL Featured in GSMA

EkoLakay workers using digital tools for collection SOIL is working hard to transform the global sanitation crisis, and we know that it is going to take innovative solutions to provide safe and dignified sanitation options to those that are without. Throughout the years we have been working in Haiti....

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World Toilet Day: Valuing Container-based Sanitation

SOIL team installing EkoLakay toilet for client in Cap-Haitien. In celebration of World Toilet Day, we wanted to dive into this year’s theme: Valuing Toilets, and take a look at how container-based toilets can play a catalytic role in expanding access to sanitation and the myriad of positive....

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SOIL and CBSA Study: Comparing Costs of Urban Sanitation Solutions

With more than four billion people still lacking access to safe sanitation globally, we know that it’s going to take a multitude of innovative solutions to successfully tackle a crisis of this proportion. A one-size-fits-all solution to the global sanitation crisis is not realistic, instead focusing....

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Making Sanitation Accessible

Cover photo by Vic Hinterlang We talk a lot at SOIL about increasing access to sanitation in Haiti. We’re hard at work to expand our programs every day as we work to build a city-wide sanitation service in a country where 75% of people lack access to a toilet. But what does it mean to build a....

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Oxfam Policy and Practice Blog: Container Based Sanitation Could Solve the World’s Toilet Problems

"Our first ever toilet summit was organised jointly with Sanergy, a social enterprise in Kenya. The two day event brought together sanitation experts and service providers from Africa, North America, the Carribean and Europe (LooWatt, MoSan, Re:Source, Sanergy, Sanivation, SOIL and Oxfam ) to share....

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New Security Beat: New Approach to Sanitation May Help Fast-Growing Urban Areas Achieve SDGs

"Along this journey we realised there were other like-minded individuals and organisations who had come to the same conclusion that container based sanitation (CBS), is the most appropriate solution to address the sanitation gap in densely settled urban areas where sewers are lacking and there is....

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