Jonga Trust
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Jonga Trust – Sight
Jonga Trust is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that screens and manages eye health for disadvantaged people in South Africa. We focus on providing eye health care services to all demographic, social and economic segments of the South African population who has limited access to eye care and further provide visual aids to sustain functional vision at the community level.
By Jonga Trust providing cost effective visual correction to young children, learners, adults and the elderly it allows individuals and families to be less socially dependent and become more economically viable. Our promise is to treat each patient with the highest level of eye care and respect while keeping quality eye care affordable
By Jonga Trust providing cost effective visual correction to young children, learners, adults and the elderly it allows individuals and families to be less socially dependent and become more economically viable. Our promise is to treat each patient with the highest level of eye care and respect while keeping quality eye care affordable
Refraction – Our Cause
The refraction service determines the optical requirements necessary to correct the client’s visual refractive error. The service includes the provision of affordable visual aids in the form of spectacles and speciality contact lens to those that require them.
It also provides low vision devices for clients who suffer from permanent visual impairment and prosthetic eye implants to clients who have physically lost their eyeballs due to disease or trauma injury.
The benefits of the refraction service are:
It also provides low vision devices for clients who suffer from permanent visual impairment and prosthetic eye implants to clients who have physically lost their eyeballs due to disease or trauma injury.
The benefits of the refraction service are:
- Restoration of visual acuity allowing for the use of full visual potential.
- Full visual potential allows for improved school and work performance.
- Accessible and affordable access to visual aids.
- Improvement in quality of life for visually disabled persons through the provision of low vision devices and the instruction in low vision orientation and mobility.
- Improvement in the psychological and social interactions of clients who have lost an eye by providing and maintaining aesthetically pleasing prosthetic eyes.
About Us
The word Jonga is a Xhosa word that means “To See”.
The Jonga Trust manages a group of companies aimed at preventing avoidable blindness and improving the overall eye health of people in disadvantaged communities. They do this by providing programs that educates the patients about eye health, screens for diseases in the eye and provide appropriate treatment for the eye.
Jonga Trust uses modern and innovative techniques to provide their services like mobile wireless retinal cameras. These cameras are used to take digital photos of the back of the eye allowing trained doctors to provide remote diagnosis of various eye diseases. Whilst the main focus of Jonga Trust is providing eye care, they aim to seek opportunity to train unemployed youth from disadvantaged communities to become skilled in various aspects of eye health care and business management.
The Jonga Trust manages a group of companies aimed at preventing avoidable blindness and improving the overall eye health of people in disadvantaged communities. They do this by providing programs that educates the patients about eye health, screens for diseases in the eye and provide appropriate treatment for the eye.
Jonga Trust uses modern and innovative techniques to provide their services like mobile wireless retinal cameras. These cameras are used to take digital photos of the back of the eye allowing trained doctors to provide remote diagnosis of various eye diseases. Whilst the main focus of Jonga Trust is providing eye care, they aim to seek opportunity to train unemployed youth from disadvantaged communities to become skilled in various aspects of eye health care and business management.
Mission
The provision of accessible quality eye care and management of chronic diseases effecting eye health at an affordable cost and to ensure sustainable community driven health awareness programs to prevent avoidable blindness in a convenient environment at community level.
To further contribute to community upliftment through skills development, career pathing, job creation, research and innovation in order to eradicate social dependencies in all South African communities and to be a model of excellence on the continent of Africa from Cape to Cairo.
To further contribute to community upliftment through skills development, career pathing, job creation, research and innovation in order to eradicate social dependencies in all South African communities and to be a model of excellence on the continent of Africa from Cape to Cairo.
Vision
To eradicate avoidable blindness in Africa through an effective model, to be copied to all other continents.
Goals
A healthy, sustainable and innovative organization that
- Provides the most comprehensive, qualitative and accessible community friendly eye health care services in Africa.
- Promotes eye health awareness to prevent blindness.
- Uses and provides evidence based research to plan and implement programs.
- Builds capacity in communities.
Biographies
Dianne Powell completed a postgraduate diploma in Ophthalmic nursing science at the University of Cape Town in 1986 graduating with distinction, and has worked in this field for over 28 years at Groote Schuur Hospital.
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Chris qualified as an Optometrist from the Technicon in Johannesburg in 1985. In 1992 passed the British College exams and registered with the General Optical Council. In 1994 registered with the Opticians board in New Zealand and in 1999 with the Board of Optometrical registration in New South Wales. In 1987 he was elected Chairman of the Western Cape branch of the South African Optometric Association (SAOA) and served in that position for many years.
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We Need your help.
We invite you to come and see us in action, experience for yourself who benefits from our programs and whose lives we touch, thanks to generous support from people like you.
Providing spectacles to disadvantage people is costly and we rely on donations to help those who can’t afford to pay for their sight. If you feel you can help please consider a donation deposited into Jonga Trust bank account:
Jonga Trust
Bank: ABSA
Account number: 9245 038 136
Branch Code: 63 20 05
Swift Code: ABSAZAJJ
ABSA Bank Address: Troye Street, 15 ABSA Tower West Floor 7, Johannesburg
Please e-mail:
Dianne Powell
di@jonga.org
Chris Eksteen
ceksteen@iafrica.com
