SOIL does a lot. But what exactly do we do, day in and day out? For the past 18 years, SOIL has been evolving, adapting, and growing as an organization in Cap-Haitien. Since our inception, we’ve explored different composting toilet technologies , restructured our business strategy to include a....
EkoMobil EkoMobil portable toilets were proudly featured at two notable events in Haiti this past week, thanks to our partnerships with Hopeful Heart 4 Haiti and the Haiti Sailing Cup . As SOIL’s EkoMobil business continues to expand, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on its beginnings and the....
EkoMobil, SOIL’s high-quality, and ecologically beneficial portable toilet rental service, has been seeing some exciting growth over this year! Our mobile toilets, similar to our household toilets , are a Container Based Sanitation (CBS) solution and available for rentals at both public and private....
The Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) is a week-long event that is taking place this week in Cap-Haitien, July 3 – 8. The summit is an opportunity to facilitate and spark new ideas for the Haitian tourism sector. Long known as the Pearl of the Antilles, Haiti has struggled to build its tourism....
On February 5th, 12th and 18th the second annual Boulva Naval festivities took place on the boulevard du Cap-Haïtien with the theme: A City, A Youth, A Culture and created an atmosphere of celebration in the city. The event included parades of dancers, acrobats, walking bands and a float carrying a....
Since 2007 the Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival has welcomed some of the biggest international names in jazz and R&B to Haiti. The Festival was founded in 2007 by the Haiti Jazz Foundation , an organization dedicated to raising the level of the Haitian music industry using jazz music as a tool. The 2023....
Photo: Vic Hinterlang By Shannon Smith and Leah Page Jean Should EkoMobil scale up? This question is one that we’ve been asking ourselves at SOIL for several years. At the end of our last fiscal year, SOIL had strategized to release EkoMobil into the market in the hopes that it would flourish as an....
The development of EkoMobil, SOIL’s portable toilet social business pilot, represents investment in a long-term and durable sanitation solution. Every dollar that’s invested in EkoMobil is returned as revenue plus profit, reinvested and returned, ad infinitum. With every dollar of EkoMobil profit....
