Last week, members of SOIL’s research team traveled to Boulder, Colorado to share recent findings with water and sanitation practitioners and researchers at the 2026 Colorado WASH Symposium (March 12-13). Miselie Fanor Pierre, SOIL’s Research Project Manager, and Rhodenischelah (Rhode) Limage....
On January 20, 2026, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) and DINEPA , Haiti’s National Directorate for Drinking Water and Sanitation, finalized a landmark agreement that marked a major achievement for urban sanitation worldwide. The agreement represents the first government-funded....
The 20th anniversary of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a time for celebration and, also, a time to pause, look back, and honor the dedication and sacrifice of the many individuals who have worked over the past two decades to build SOIL into what it is today: a locally-run....
Behind every bag of SOIL’s KonposLakay compost is a careful process to ensure it is safe, free of harmful pathogens, and ready to restore Haiti’s soils. Each batch is held to rigorous standards in compliance with the Haitian government’s requirements for processing waste as well as the World Health....
Today, December 10, the world celebrates Human Rights Day , marking the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Article 1 is only seven words long, yet it carries the weight of our shared humanity: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Dignity. That....
At SOIL, we're on a mission to transform urban sanitation for underserved communities through our innovative EkoLakay service. But as we scale the service to reach 8,000 households in northern Haiti by March 2027, having easy access to real-time, robust data and performance indicators at our....
We are beyond excited to welcome Maya Lubeck-Schricker back to the SOIL team—this time as our Director of Research and Innovation. Maya’s journey with SOIL began in 2020, right after she finished up her undergraduate degree in Community Health at Tufts University. While scoping out different post....
Almost twenty years ago, SOIL asked a question: Could affordable, safe and dignified sanitation services be delivered in dense, coastal urban neighborhoods without sewer infrastructure — and could the waste collected from these services be transformed into compost? (Spoiler alert: the answer is yes....
A couple of weeks ago, SOIL’s research team met with our partners at Aquaya to explore what sanitation service demand looks like among Cap-Haitien residents who are: Not EkoLakay clients. Are actively seeking a sanitation solution for their household. Currently have a household toilet (such as a pit....
When the SOIL team received a message a few weeks ago from agronomy student Djimy Jean-Louis, complete with photos of some of the most beautiful eggplants we’d ever seen, we knew we had to learn more about how he grew such impressive crops. SOIL Research Associate Miselie Fanor Pierre reached out to....
