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As a successful Optometrist, Beverley still keeps her hand in practice. She has successfully managed and run practices for over 15 years and is the owner of the Wedge Optometrists in Morningside, Sandton. Her practice details can be viewed at www.thewedge.co.za. Bev has 18 years clinical experience and a determined enthusiasm for visual system balancing and getting the best vision right for her clients. She believes that without the right balance in spectacle or contact lens prescriptions, it is difficult to focus for hours and maintain high levels of cognitive functioning without strain or head aches. She enjoys working with clients of all ages, including young children, a special focus for Bev.
Between Self Esteem Engineering and Optometry, Bev says her focus is always on improving the vision people have for themselves and their lives.
She is passionate about sharing her profession with those who are unable to attain assistance with their visual needs. To this end she devotes time to assisting communities who can not afford spectacles. She works closely with the outreach teams of the SAOA (South African Optometric Association), to attend as many charity days and community testing projects, as possible. Bev involves herself with volunteering in Optometry projects wherever she can and can be seen contributing her experience and services in many different projects.
In October 2005 she single-handedly set up a project in a village in the Magaliesburg. Bev made over a dozen trips to the village and made over 60 pairs of spectacles for residents of the community.
The Botshabelo Community Development Trust, Magaliesburg, began in December 1990, founded by Con and Marion Cloete (www.botshabelo.org). The Cloete family left behind their urban upper-middle-class lifestyle in Johannesburg, South Africa, to buy an old farm and start Botshabelo, giving rural orphans and eventually poor and displaced adults a home, an education and a chance at a better life.
Bev met the Cloete family and was drawn into their dedicated work in the village they created. She was horrified when discovering there were no assessments done on the visual needs of the community and offered to begin a project to meet these needs at the time. |
