2019-2025
HAITI’S ECO TOILETS
© SOIL / Vic Hinterlang
2019-2025
Soil
Since 2006, SOIL has been working to provide safe in-house toilets and sanitation services to families living in some of Haiti’s poorest urban communities. By transforming toilet waste into compost, SOIL helps to reduce disease, restore soils, save water, increase food security and nurture climate resilience. Against a backdrop of multiple concurrent crises, including armed violence, cholera, inflation and political instability, SOIL is currently serving over 3,200 households in urban Haiti with critical sanitation services and aims to expand to 5,000 households by 2025.
CHALLENGE
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ACTION
For a small monthly fee, SOIL provides people living in dense urban communities with safe, affordable household toilets and waste collection and treatment services.
SOIL then transforms the collected waste into compost, which is sold to farmers and businesses around Haiti to support agriculture, reforestation and climate change mitigation efforts.
SOIL’s sanitation and waste treatment operations provide dignified jobs in waste collection, transport and treatment, reversing the stigma associated with the sector.
SOIL is currently serving over 3,200 households, representing over 19,000 people in urban Haiti. It aims to expand to 5,000 households by 2025, reaching an estimated 30,000 people.
IMPACT
More than 19,000 Haitians have access to SOIL’s toilets today. More than 500 tons of waste are transformed into organic compost every year.
HAITIANS
have access to SOIL’s toilets to date
TONS OF WASTE TRANSFORMED
into organic compost in a year
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In 2020 we provided emergency funds to support the deployment of public toilet facilities in Cap-Haitien, as well as at the HHA hospital’s COVID-19 area in Quartier Morin. The effort aimed to serve 218,000 people in six months and ensure the safe treatment of over 70 tons of human waste.
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