Inside SOIL Haiti: The Movement Changing Sanitation If you are in need of a dose of inspiration, we recommend watching Centre NGO’s latest feature on the SOIL sanitation service in Haiti. This compelling video offers an intimate look inside of the brilliant minds of senior EkoLakay managers Romel....
SOIL is thrilled to announce the launch of Phase 2 of our groundbreaking partnership with IDB Lab’s Outcomes for Change Fund (OCF) in Haiti, the first large-scale Outcomes Fund to be implemented in a fragile country context and small island developing state. Over the course of Phase 1 of the project....
Jumping into a new relationship can be nerve-wracking. Will we share the same values? Will they grow with us? Will they embrace our quirks? But sometimes, things just click—like they did with SOIL and our new partner Who Gives a Crap , an innovative toilet paper company on a mission to make a....
A key characteristic of a strong community is that neighbors show up for each other in times of struggle. SOIL is continually inspired by the displays of solidarity among our team and Cap-Haïtien’s residents. When unprecedented floods struck Cap-Haïtien in early December, it was many hands–driven by....
We are pleased to share our 2024 Annual Report. In a time when most of the news coming out of Haiti is discouraging and access to basic services has become even more limited, we are inspired that in 2024 SOIL's EkoLakay service was able to reach thousands more people with safe and dignified private....
As households and communities grapple with the aftermath of intense flooding in Cap-Haïtien , SOIL’s team has risen to the challenge of ensuring access to safe sanitation for EkoLakay clients, despite many obstacles. Early this month, the northern coast of Haiti was lashed by torrential rain. By....
Over the past decade, the SOIL research and operations teams have experimented with windrow composting as a way to expedite our composting process. When we first started conducting research on windrow composting methods in 2022 we had about 8,000 people on the EkoLakay service. Since then we have....
Dear Friend, As an organization based in Haiti for over 18 years, we know what it is like to work alongside Haitians – who are some of the strongest, bravest, kindest, and most hard-working people we have ever known. Each morning, as the first light breaks over the city, Cap-Haitien is already alive....
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....
In urban areas of developing countries like Cap-Haitien in Haiti, high-quality sanitation services are often unaffordable for low-income residents, whose ability to pay typically falls well below the full cost of delivering services. For a sanitation service provider such as SOIL, setting prices for....
