New Learning

CEF supports Partners in the Horn of Africa to create new experience for Ethiopian schoolchildren

CEF, through its partnership with Partners in the Horn of Africa, is helping to bring a much improved, educational experience to the children in Naki Negao, a small community located in the Bale Mountain Region of Ethiopia.

Nakie Negao Elementary School, which currently supports 1,250 students from grades 1 through 8, is currently the only school within a 6 km radius that includes grades 7 and 8.  Therefore, any students in the region who want to continue to high school must pass through the Nakie Negal Elementary school.  The current classrooms are over-crowded with shoddy buildings made of mud blocks.  Students bring cow dung to spread on the dirt floor to reduce the abundant dust, which often contributes to respiratory infections.  Most students sit on eucalyptus wood logs or rocks.

Compassionate Eye Foundation contributed $25,000 to Partners in the Horn of Africa towards the construction of two modern cement block classroom structure containing four classrooms each, a cement block library filled with books and furniture and a cement block latrine.  By both increasing the size and improving the physical conditions of the school, CEF is helping to ensure that students in the area can enjoy a healthy, safe and clean environment conducive to learning.

Fighting hunger

foundation supports hunger relief programs through its contributions

Compassionate Eye Foundation supports CHF(formerly Canadian Hunger Foundation) in a number of income and livelihood enterprises aimed at helping people of the world overcome chronic poverty, dependency on relief, and achieve long-term food security.  Through a generous agreement with CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) our $1,000 a month contribution will be leveraged at 29:1 to provide a total monthly contribution of $29,000.  These funds will first be put to use in Bati, Ethiopia where farm equipment and animals will be provided to families headed by females to help reduce workloads and improve income diversification.  The funds will also help households build wells for clean drinking water, drip irrigation systems for crops and water systems to divert spring water from mountaintops.