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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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