Some encouraging (and tasty) news from the SOIL gardens at Penye. We have harvested our latest crop of green peppers, planted in evenly sized, spaced, and watered plots, but with one important difference: one plot was planted with no compost, one was planted with 3 pounds of SOIL compost per foot....
As regular readers of the SOIL blog will already know, SOIl was lucky enough to be awarded the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification's Land for Life Award for our land rehabilitation projects in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien. The award was officially presented last week in Doha, Qatar....
Last Friday the SOIL teams from both Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien came together to celebrate the official launch of the Household Toilet Project in Shada. The event was a great success, with participation from SOIL, DINEPA, Re.Source, KOSS, and many community members. The program began with....
Join SOIL Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan as he watches SOIL staff members training residents of Shada, Cap-Haitien, to use their Household EcoSan toilets. This month marks the official launch of the Household Toilet Project, and hundreds of families in Shada will....
Sasha and I made a grand entrance into today's CGI (Clinton Global Initiative) meeting, hosted at the Karibe Hotel in Port-au-Prince. As some of you may know, both the Karibe and CGI meetings in general are pretty fancy, but that didn't stop the SOIL crew from wheeling in a giant squeaky wheelbarrow....
The past couple of weeks have been a new kind of learning experience for Sasha and myself, as we, along with several other people in our neighborhood, came down with Typhoid Fever. Although it hasn't been a fun or easy experience, Sasha and I count ourselves incredibly lucky and grateful to have....
By Jennifer Yang in The Toronto Star, November 22nd, 2012. When it comes to tackling some of Haiti’s most afflicting problems, Sasha Kramer has an elegant idea involving large quantities of a rather indelicate substance: poop. Lots of poop. Buckets of the stuff. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of....
Join Regional Director Theo on his latest Adventure in EcoSan as he journeys through the streets of Shada with longtime SOIL friend and community activist Madanm Bwa, raising awareness about the risks of cholera and methods to prevent its transmission. The message that Madanm Bwa brings is....
Join SOIL's Regional Director, Theo Huitema, on another adventure in EcoSan. In Theo Talks Episode 3, you'll see SOIL's Job Etienne, Nick Preneta and Sasha Kramer attempting to "sex" fish. In the background you'll see Theo's house, made out of a former compost bin, at the SOIL farm and tree nursery....
Here in Port-au-Prince the sun is shining and the temperature is a balmy 86°F, but for many of our friends in the United States and throughout the world, winter is fast approaching! No matter where you are, the holiday season is on its way, and that means that SOIL calendars are here again! One of....
