HEALTH
Providing clean water systems and access to medical care.
EDUCATION
Creating environments for children to learn and grow.
SUSTAINABILITY
Empowering communities with tools for economic success.
A CREATIVE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE
PHOTOGRAPHY WITH PURPOSE
YOUR PURCHASE, THEIR HOPE
Compassionate Eye Foundation is a registered Canadian charity. Formed by Creatives who wanted to give back, we produce stock photographs which are sold through Getty Images to fund community based development projects globally.
Accomplished photographers, videographers, producers, and other creatives donate their time and talent to our photo shoots. When you purchase CEF’s stock photos on Getty Images, you support the cause for a better living in different countries.
From building schools in Guatemala to installing water filtration systems in Cambodia to helping create profitable business ventures in Kenya – the Compassionate Eye Foundation supports social good, one photo at a time.
OUR IMPACT OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS
BY THE NUMBERS
STRATEGIC PLAN 2025-2026
At Compassionate Eye, our vision is to foster empowered communities and sustainable futures. Through our unique model of leveraging creative work, we raise vital funds for innovative grassroots projects that directly benefit people in the developing world.
For the 2025-2026 period, we are committed to three core pillars:
Sustainability & Governance: We are diversifying our revenue streams by engaging Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) partners and securing grants to ensure our operating model remains sound and scalable.
Tangible Impact: Our model is highly efficient. We fund projects of Canadian NGOs with established infrastructure on the ground, to build healthy, equitable communities. NGOs who have experience utilizing minimum funds for maximum results, and providing transparent, metric-driven impact reporting.
Global Engagement: By sharing compelling stories of our partners and projects, we intend to drive awareness and increase funding through the CSR dollars of small to mid-scale organizations and individual donors.
Through these efforts, we measure our success by the growth in available funding for global development projects and the strength of the partnerships we build with donors, NGOs and communities that are most in need.
Clean water in Mook Pehn and Kauk Chrey
A KIDS International Development Society project, Cambodia
Working alongside charity KIDS International Development Society, CEF helped fund solar-powered water filter systems and towers in Cambodia. These projects ensured that children in these two villages have access to clean water while attending schools, a basic need enabling them to think, learn and play all day. CEF also provides support to children and families in these poor farming communities.
Water access to medical care
A KIDS International Development Society project, Cambodia
Families in some parts of rural Cambodia live in isolated villages along rivers and lakes making access to health care difficult. Along with KIDS International, CEF helped construct a pre-fab building and platform to float a mobile clinic along the Stung Sen River. The clinic offers privacy and clean areas for surgery and procedures, as well as lodging and teaching space for health professionals.
Skills for young entrepreneurs
A Partnership for Success project, Ethiopia
CEF partnered with Street Kids International to deliver innovative entrepreneurship and employment programs to empower youth to earn and sustain a safe and decent living.
Young girls go to school too
A KINA Social Ventures project, Nepal
After the devastating earthquake in 2015, CEF supported charity KINA Social Ventures (Empowering Girls) to construct a replacement two-room school to help kids get back to normal life. CEF also supplied a scholarship for 40 girls to pursue an education.
Empowering a community through knowledge
Adopt a Village project, Kenya
In the small village of Esinoni located in the South Narok District in Kenya, CEF collaborated with the charity WE in the Adopt a Village Program that aims to empower communities with resources and knowledge to break the cycle of poverty. The village is currently home to over 1,200 residents, of which 800 are children under the age of 18.
