In affluent Western cultures, feces flushes away with the flick of a lever and is forgotten. In Haiti, the residents are not so lucky.
There's an ever-present danger of contracting a life-threatening illness or disease from waterborne pathogens, due to s poorly placed toilets seeping human waste into the water table.
After observing the toll on human lives, she's trying to change that and how Haitians regard their waste. Based on the idea that people regardless of their living conditions have to defecate,
preferably with dignity. The nonprofit organization SOIL ( Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) acknowledges that earthy fact. Since launching in 2006, they've built the number one social enterprise based on the business of number two, in Haiti, called EkoLakay
In doing so, they provide an essential service to hundreds of Haitian households by converting human waste into a resource through the sale and upkeep of cost-effective composting toilets. SOIL employs 76 people in every aspect of the business from logistics to converting feces into nutrient-rich organic compost. The goal is to reduce Haiti's misery factor by solving two of the nation's intractable problems- a lack of sanitation and a lack of topsoil - which many experts agree are barriers to future economic development.
I interviewed Sasha several years ago. Since then, SOIL has continued to expand by offering more services to a greater number of people. They're a composting company operating under the guise of hauling human waste.
I could follow up with her to get an update on SOIL's progress and hopefully individuals involved with the eco-sanitation movement https://www.oursoil.org