By Theresa Johnston, Stanford Magazine, September/October 2011 How poor is Haiti? Picture a country of more than 10 million people without a single sewage treatment plant. The closest thing they have is an open unlined pit at the Port-au-Prince city dump. Each day about 50 tanker trucks pull up to....
SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti. [hr style="solid"] 10 September 2011 Dear Sasha: Thank you so much for your work in Haiti. We were glad to see the collaboration with Oxfam, but we....
By Allyn Gaestel, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2011 Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Instead of the commuters typically packed into the bright blue and red "tap tap" pickup truck weaving through Haiti's capital, a man, shrunken, dehydrated, dressed in a diaper and attached to an IV, lay on the....
Sasha Kramer, Ecologist, Emerging Explorer. National Geographic, 2011 “Haiti has very few resources right now. Ecological sanitation helps these marginalized, yet resilient people transform human waste into something valuable.” Sasha Kramer fights Haiti’s most pressing health, economic, and....
By Amy Bracken, PRI's The World, June 2, 2011 The village of Truittier, on the northern edge of Port-au-Prince, has a certain charm. Pigs snort and fowl cluck amid vegetable gardens and cactus hedges lining dirt paths. But the village’s raison d’etre lies in plain sight – piles of sorted trash in....
Dear Friends, I have waited to write this letter to you, waited to have some good news to share, wanted toshare hope and not disillusionment, wanted to reassure you that the program we have developed since the earthquake will continue to serve families in need. But as today marks the first day of....
By Jennifer Benorden, June 2011 Watch the film at holycrapthefilm.com.
By Molly Oleson, Sierra Magazine, May/June 2011 "Even prior to the earthquake, Haiti had the worst sanitation of any country in the western hemisphere. Most people here who don't have access to a toilet go in the bushes or in plastic bags that get thrown into abandoned lots or bodies of water. "As....
With the support of Oxfam Great Britain, SOIL conducted a market assessment of compost and fertilizer sales in Haiti with a specific focus on indentifying possible markets for the sale of compost generated by EcoSan projects. Throughout the course of this study, the following market conditions were....
By Julia Steers, Huffington Post, January 13, 2011 Social change rarely makes for glamorous work, but Dr. Sasha Kramer's sanitation efforts in Haiti redefine the phrase "down and dirty." As a Stanford graduate student studying ecology, Sasha decided that upon graduation, she would go to Haiti to....