About Wendy Mons, owner and founder of Mons International,
Inc.
Wendy Mons, President wmons@magnifiers.com
MONS INTERNATIONAL, INC
www.magnifers.com
- Founded Mons International, a company dedicated to providing products and services
to visually
impaired persons in 1986.
- Contracted with Emory Department of Ophthalmology to set up
the Emory Low Vision Clinic (1991-94).
- Conducts 20 low vision clinics with local optometrists and/or
ophthalmologists around Georgia. Of the patients seen in these clinics,
80% are funded either through a contract with the Department of Labor/Rehabilitation
or through the federal grant described below. The remaining 20% are private.
- Opened Mons Special Eyewear, a store for the blind and visually
impaired at the request of visually impaired Georgians, their teachers,
parents and counselors in 1988. It operated until 1992.
- Worked at the Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta for
3 ½ years as a low vision specialist and temporary Director of
Low Vision Services (1983-86).
- Worked as a teacher’s assistant while studying for a Masters
of Education degree at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
- Set up low vision clinics in Israel and founded a Braille newspaper
there.
- Worked overseas 9 years in rehabilitation for the blind and
visually impaired.
- Earned a degree in Special Education for the Blind and Visually
Impaired at the University of Texas in 1971.
MONS BUSINESS BIO
- Founded and subsidizes the non-profit organization Visually
Impaired Foundation of Georgia to coordinate existing services for the
visually impaired in Georgia. The website www.vifga.org posts events,
services, and vendors. The toll-free number is 877-77-VIFGA (877-778-4342).
- Helps fund and facilitate low vision support groups.
- Awarded three, five-year grants to work with older VI clients
in 1999-2004, 1994-99 with the 3'rd grant awarded 2004-2009.
- Provides a low vision exam, mobility training,
rehabilitation in the home, and selected low vision products. Will soon
provide computer training as well.
- Offers free low vision workshops at libraries, schools, senior
centers, universities, doctors’ offices, Department of Labor area hubs,
Lions Clubs and local organizations.
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