SOIL
Since 2006, SOIL has been working to provide safe in-home toilets and sanitation services to families living in some of Haiti’s poorest urban communities. By converting toilet waste into compost, SOIL helps to reduce disease, restore soils, and save water. Against a backdrop of multiple concurrent crises, including armed violence, cholera, inflation and political instability, SOIL is currently serving over 4,200 households in urban Haiti with critical sanitation services. It aims to expand to 5,000 households by 2027.
oursoil.org | Partner since 2019
Challenge
30% of Haiti’s urban population do not have access to toilets. Haitian cities have no sewer systems and less than 0.1% of human waste is treated safely. This lack of toilets is causing a major public health crisis. Haiti has frequent Cholera outbreaks and the highest childhood diarrhoea incidence rate in the world.
Response
For a small monthly fee, SOIL provides people living in dense urban communities in northern Haiti with safe, affordable off-grid household toilets and waste collection and treatment services.
SOIL then converts the collected waste into compost, which is sold to local farmers and businesses to support agricultural production.
SOIL’s sanitation and waste treatment operations provide dignified jobs in waste collection, transport and treatment, reversing the stigma associated with the sanitation sector.
SOIL is currently serving over 4,200 households, representing nearly 21,000 people in urban Haiti. It aims to expand to 5,000 households by 2027 to reach an estimated 25,000 people.
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