The worst case scenario has happened - cholera has arrived in Port-au-Prince - and SOIL is continuing to do everything possible to limit the spread of the disease, to provide safe sanitation services, and to keep people informed on the best methods to prevent and treat it. SOIL's "Ajan Prevansyon" /....
By Isabeau Doucet, Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Between 500 and 900 cubic meters of raw sewage is dumped daily at Troutier, according to Theo Huitema, World Vision’s water and sanitation expert. He disagrees that the sewage is necessarily contaminating the local water supply, though he says that it would be better to dump it further outside the city. But Sasha Kramer of SOIL, an NGO that has constructed dry compost toilets in Haiti since 2004, says the decision to unload human waste into the city’s garbage dump at Troutier was disastrous. “They need to close off Troutier, put a fence around the pits, and have patrols out there monitoring and cleaning,” she says.
Dear Friends of SOIL, I flew into Haiti yesterday morning to see my friend Leah (SOIL's Development Director). Within a few hours of my arrival in Port-au-Prince, Leah brought me to the tent city in Cite Soleil where her organization, SOIL, has been installing toilets and rainwater-fed hand washing....
