Help Us Build Household Toilets in Cite Soleil and Shada

SOIL is applying to be a Rising Star in Global Health and we need your support to win! Please take a few seconds to watch our video and vote for household sanitation in Haiti. Up to 30 successful candidates from each round will be selected to receive $100,000 Canadian, and from this group, 12 will....

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Voice of America: Turning Apathy and Pollution Into Valuable Resources in Haiti with Dr. Sasha Kramer, Executive Director and Co-Founder of SOIL and National Geographic Emerging Explorer

Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life with Kate Ebner, Voice of America, April 16, 2012 In 2010, UNICEF reported that only 10% of rural Haitians and less than 25% of those in cities had access to adequate sanitation facilities. People are forced to find ways to dispose of their wastes, often in the....

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SOIL On Track to Meet Clinton Global Initiative Commitments

As one of the only organizations providing complete sanitation in Haiti - toilets and treatment - SOIL takes its commitments to increasing sanitation access very seriously. In 2011 we applied, and were accepted, to the Clinton Global Initiative's Haiti Action Network. We have used this forum to....

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Experiments in Composting: Po Pistach!

We are REALLY excited up here at the Cap-Haitien office about our new cover material: ground peanut shells! We have been using bagasse (a byproduct of sugarcane production) for years, which has been doing the job, but perhaps not breaking down as fast as we would like. It’s important for us to have....

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Spring Newsletter 2012: We have 400,000 gallons of compost!

SOIL has 400,000 gallons of rich, organic compost curing in piles at our waste treatment sites around Haiti and we're producing more at a rate of 5,000 gallons a week! Check out the full story in the SOIL Spring Newsletter.

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SOIL Staff Get CPR and First Aid Training

On a sunny Friday earlier this month, all staff members came to the SOIL office up here in Cap Haitien for a little CPR and First Aid training. Because we have so many staff members working in potentially dangerous situations (and really, anything can happen anytime!), it was decided that it would....

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Al Jazeera Earthrise Dija-TV: Eco-Toilets (News Video)

Coverage by Gelerah Derabi on Al Jazeera Earthrise on Dija-TV, March 30, 2012

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Video Release: A New Beginning in Cite Soleil: The Jaden Tap Tap

Bochika, SAKALA and SOIL are proud to announce the unveiling of a new short video that showcase’s the “Jaden Tap Tap” (Tap Tap Garden) and a positive side of Cite Soleil, Haiti that is rarely shown to the public. We invite everyone to take a moment and enjoy this video that demonstrates the combined....

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National Geographic Photo Camp comes to Cite Soleil

Friday was clear and hot, as 18 young Haitians from around Port au Prince piled out of vans onto the concrete soccer field in Pax Christi, site of the collaborative EcoSan and garden projects of SOIL and Bochika. The students were selected from their communities to participate in the week-long....

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Holy Crap! (the film)... now on YouTube!

Have you seen this wonderful little (5 minute) film about SOIL yet?

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