Currently, only 16% of rural Haitians and 50% of those in Haiti's cities have access to improved sanitation facilities, placing adults and children at a high risk of developing life-threatening water-borne diseases. Nowhere are these health risks as magnified as they are in the Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps formed within Haiti after its devastating earthquake in 2010.

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) currently provides emergency sanitation services to over 15,000 people in IDP camps in Port-au-Prince. Through the process of ecological sanitation, human wastes are collected in specially designed toilets and converted into rich agricultural compost.

In the coming year, SOIL plans to continue providing emergency sanitation services in camps, while transitioning to household solutions for people throughout Haiti. Through the design and installation of an innovative new household toilet and disseminating lessons learned through educational activities, SOIL is working to set a new standard for responsible sanitation services. Increased sanitation in Haiti means healthier, stronger communities and dignity for already vulnerable populations.

Your support provides for the continued maintenance and care of the existing composting toilets serving over 15,000 displaced people in Haiti, as well as ecological sanitation training for Haitian individuals, who will help integrate this technology into more permanent living arrangements.