Invitation: Official Launch of the Household Toilet Project in Shada, Cap-Haitien

The SOIL team is pleased to announce the official launch celebration for the Household Toilet Project in Cap-Haitien, Haiti! Please join us in Shada, Cap-Haitien on Friday, December 7th starting at 10am and join in the festivities! This event marks the official kickoff of a long anticipated pilot....

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Press Release: SOIL Selected As a Grand Challenges Canada Rising Star in Public Health

SOIL is honored to announce that we were selected as a recipient of the Grand Challenges Canada Rising Stars in Global Health Award. SOIL's innovative new program to develop and implement a social business model for household sanitation services in Haiti is being recognized alongside 68 other "Stars....

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SOIL Launches the Household Toilet Project in Shada, Cap-Haitien Haiti

For those familiar with SOIL, the Household Toilet Project probably doesn't sound all that new. For years we’ve dreamed about a social business model for providing household sanitation in Haiti, and today we are happy to report that our dream has started to become a reality! On October 30, 2012....

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Press Release: Utopia Foundation Provides Matching Grant to SOIL for Work in Haiti

TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN - October 10,2012 - The Utopia Foundation announced today a dollar-for-dollar matching grant to donations made through the Foundation to Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) through December 31, 2012 up to a total of $7,500. SOIL is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated....

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Press Release: Cell Phone Powered Poop Tracking Advances Haiti Waste Treatment

The SOIL team is going high tech, using smart phones to streamline poop collection and compost production. Our friends and collaborators from re.source have helped develop a system for SOIL, using an open source data collection platform called Open Data Kit, to record and track all of the composting....

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Press Release: Summary and Key Takeaways from Haiti's First Sustainable Sanitation Conference Released

More than over 150 people from over 50 groups, organizations and government ministries attended the first ever Sustainable Sanitation Conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a forum to exchange ideas, lessons-learned, and discuss development of national standards for sanitation provision. SOIL is proud....

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Press Release: SOIL Wins the UNCCD Land for Life Award to Support Soil Regeneration and Sanitation in Haiti

SOIL wins first place in the UNCCD’s Land for Life Award and will be receive $40,000 to support development of an integrated agricultural livelihood learning center and demonstration farm located near Cap-Haitian, Haiti. Cap-Haitien, Haiti: - SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), a....

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Press Release: First Sustainable Sanitation Conference to be held June 12-13, 2012 in Pétion-ville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The Sustainable Sanitation Conference, hosted by SOIL and UNICEF, will raise awareness of positive progress and best practices for sustainable sanitation solutions in Haiti, where lack of sanitation continues to fuel cholera epidemic. SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), a leader in....

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Press Release: SOIL is a Semi-Finalist for the Land for Life Award

15 Semi-Finalists Announced for first Land for Life Award UNCCD PRESS RELEASE 24/05/2012 Bonn, Germany - From turning human waste into organic fertilizer to scientific breakthroughs reversing desertification, the 15 semi-finalists of the Land for Life award find innovative and inspiring ways to....

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