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Juno7: All About SOIL's Organic Compost

SOIL’s lush, organic compost, Konpòs Lakay , works to mitigates the impacts of change, rebuilds soil health, and helps farmers increase their yields in Haiti. As we produce more and more compost, we've been excited to collaborate with Konsome Lokal, an organization working promote local Haitian....

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Algate & Yvrose

Racing Our Way to A Sustainable City-Wide Sanitation Service

SOIL team members Algate & Yvrose Let’s call it the “fill your container challenge,” (which, let me assure you, is quite different from the ice bucket challenge. You would not want to dump these containers over your head). Over the past two months, 16 of SOIL's EkoLakay sales staff were competing as....

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New York Times: Can Dirt Save the Earth?

Photo: Vic Hinterlang "To prevent carbon from causing misery and destruction, perhaps we just need to change its location. Perhaps we can find a way to pull it from the air and restore it to the earth," writes the New York Times in a new article that features the research of SOIL's longtime....

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Gavin McNicol, Junior Jules Francois and Denis Darline

Juneau Empire: How Human Waste Can Be Transformed into Resources

Gavin McNicol, Junior Jules Francois and Denis Darline are photographed at SOIL Haiti’s composting site near Cap-Haïtien (Tucker Cahill Chambers) Around two million people, mostly women and children, die each year from diarrhea caused by preventable waterborne diseases. The majority of people....

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SOIL’s EkoLakay Service Mapped in New Water Atlas

Hot off the press is Guerilla Cartography’s Water Atlas, their latest project featuring volunteer submissions of maps on all things water, including one titled “Reducing Water Pollution with a Poop Solution” – a map on SOIL’s EkoLakay household sanitation service! Monika Roy, SOIL’s former Project....

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photo credit: Andrea Bruce

The Guardian: Life without Toilets

Photo: Andrea Bruce, NOOR Images Last year, award winning professional photographer Andrea Bruce came to visit SOIL in Northern Haiti to document our work to See the Photos Don't miss the Guardian's piece on the series, including a shout-out to SOIL's transformative sanitation solution. Are you....

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Building a Depot to Streamline SOIL’s Operations in Northern Haiti

A photo of EkoLakay's current depot by Monica Wise On any given morning, SOIL’s current depot in Cap Haitien is abuzz with EkoLakay collection vehicles coming in and out from the communities we serve, staff briefing one another on the activities of the coming day, and buckets o f bonzodè (the carbon....

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photo: Vic Hinterlang

Ozy: Why Cities are Starting to Shun Sewers

Photo: Vic Hinterlang It's time to think outside the sewer, writes Alia Dharssi for Ozy in a new article on how sanitation practitioners like SOIL are leading the way for a global sanitation revolution. "Globally, more than 1 billion people live in slums with inadequate or no toilets. That condition....

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PAP training team

Building a Safe Workplace for all SOIL Staff

PAP training team Since it was first published in 2015, SOIL's Human Resources Manual has served to guide, unite, protect, and inform SOIL’s staff. The manual, written in Haitian Kreyòl, contains 24 pages with topics ranging from vacation time to salaries, confidentiality, performance evaluation....

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ReSource Award Supports the Growth of SOIL’s Business Model

Photo: AJ+ We’re on our way to creating an affordable and replicable model for the provision of a safe, ecologically beneficial city-wide sanitation, and we’ve got news to share! In September 2017 we excitedly announced that SOIL was selected as a Finalist for the ReSource Award. This prize....

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