SOIL's Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, gives a talk at National Geographic on fighting Haiti's most pressing health, economic and environmental problems, one toilet at a time. This follows up a previous article in the National Geographic in October on SOIL's attempt to use human waste to....
By Jess Lozier, in the Fairfield Citizen, December 20, 2011 I recently returned home to Fairfield from Haiti, capping off four years of living and working in Cap-Haitien and in Port-au-Prince. I start medical school in January, and I know it will be several years before I will be able to return to....
The 2012 SOIL calendar follows the EcoSan cycle, featuring gorgeous photos of the elements of EcoSan - people, toilets, compost and agriculture. As in the past, we kindly ask our friends and supporters purchase a pack of ten calendars at a discounted rate of $150 for ten, and then resell or give....
SOIL was co-founded in 2006 in San Francisco California. We are so pleased to see that our dream has come full circle with San Francisco now considering putting in a network of public composting toilets throughout the city to help solve the sewage and water problems faced by large cities around the....
Last Sunday 12 young women from Cite Soleil visited the SOIL compost site in Pernier. The young women were from a local organization called SAKALA (supported by Pax Christi Haiti) which works on community development and conflict prevention in Cite Soleil. SOIL has been working with SAKALA for the....
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In one of the urban neighborhoods hardest hit by cholera, Shada, Cap-Haitien, SOIL community workers have been going door-to-door to find out why. Over the past four weeks, SOIL has spoken with the residents of over 2,500 households about their access to sanitation and their family's hygiene....
SOIL's 2012 calendar is at the printer! It was designed by the amazing Mimi Jorling, a friend and volunteer of SOIL, who lives in New York City but also volunteers for a local organization in Cabaret, just outside Port-au-Prince. The 2012 calendar follows the EcoSan cycle, featuring gorgeous photos....
By Mary Catherine O'Connor in Smart Planet, November 19, 2011 Today is the 10th annual World Toilet Day. Sponsored by the Singapore-based World Toilet Organization, the event is meant to build awareness about the risks that lack of sanitation present to the physical, emotional and psychological....
On Thursday, November 10th, twenty-four enthusiastic individuals representing local, national and international organizations came together in Port-au-Prince to learn ecological sanitation principles and best practices in a day-long training lead by SOIL staff. This year SOIL began a series of....