Expanding Access to Sanitation 73 Toilets at a Time

Photo: Tony Marcelli SOIL just wrapped up its fiscal year last month and we ended on a high note with 73 EkoLakay toilet installations in July alone. That’s more toilets than we had previously installed during any month this year! The majority of these new customers live in two densely populated....

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Scaling Up a Household Toilet Service – One Neighborhood at a Time

(Photo credit: Monica Wise) Over 2.5 billion people globally currently lack access to sanitation. As a heartbreaking result, over 2,200 children under the age of five die every day from preventable diarrheal diseases. Despite billions of dollars spent on sanitation interventions, the global....

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Impact Design Hub: 40 Under 40

We are incredibly proud to share that SOIL Executive Director Dr. Sasha Kramer has been named one of Impact Design Hub's 40 under 40 in recognition of her incredible contributions to the public sector. Impact Design Hub’s 40 under 40 recognizes some of the brightest young minds at work designing for....

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Le Nouvelliste: Des toilettes aux assiettes: Et si nous passions à des solutions alternatives pour l'assainissement?

En Haïti, nous avons eu notre première station d'épuration des eaux noires dans la capitale en 2010, et depuis, elle n'est toujours pas fonctionnelle. De plus, ce système ne permet pas d'assurer le traitement de toutes les eaux noires produites à Port-au-Prince, sans parler du cas des autres villes....

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The POOP Project: You're Tuned to CBS: SOIL's Sasha Kramer, Kory Russel and Container Based Sanitation

When is a five gallon bucket of poop more than just a five gallon bucket of poop? In this episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) s(h)its down with Sasha Kramer, co-founder and Executive Director of SOIL, and engineer/academic Kory Russel of re.source. Their Container Based Sanitation model is creating....

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Challenges News: Quand ong et secteur privé sont partenaires

Jusqu’à présent, la production de vétiver, très traditionnelle en Haïti, s’est faite naturellement et sans apport d’intrant externe ou fertilisant. Pourquoi ne pas nourrir et restructurer les sols où il est cultivé pour voir si la production d’huile essentielle de vétiver y gagne en volume et en....

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The World Bank: Building Toilets And Changing Behaviors Can Save Lives in Haiti

This week, sanitation is at the top of the agenda in Haiti. " Improving sanitation is everybody's business. Each toilet built, adopted and used, means that one family won’t be affected by cholera and other waterborne diseases that cause the death of more children under five years than HIV / AIDS....

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SOIL Celebrates May Day at the Annual Limbé Festival

Sanitation Director Emmanuel Antoine talks about SOIL's work to address agriculture and sanitation issues in Haiti[/caption] May Day, or Agriculture and Labor Day here in Haiti, is celebrated as a national public holiday. One may wonder about the state of agricultural production here in Haiti after....

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Sales Surge in Quartier Morin

At SOIL, we are constantly refining our strategy for operating our EkoLakay service, so that we can continue honing our service, increase efficiencies, and working towards the ideal model for a household sanitation service business in Haiti. Last year, the Cap-Haitien team decided to implement the....

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Stanford Webinar: Container Based Sanitation Solutions

As the population of urban slums around the world expands, so does the risk of public health catastrophes associated with poor sanitation. Learn more about the role container-based sanitation (CBS) can play in areas without conventional household toilets or sewage systems at a webinar organized by....

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