In 1999, Jordan co-founded Scojo Vision LLC, a leading designer and distributor of high-end reading glasses and accessories in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan. A year later, he and his partner designated 5% of the company's profits to fund the Scojo Foundation, a social enterprise that trains entrepreneurs in developing countries to give eye screenings and sell low-cost reading glasses in their communities. His innovative model allows thousands of people in developing countries the gift of sight so they can continue working and contributing to their communities. In turn, Scojo provides entrepreneurial opportunities for the people who distribute and sell the reading glasses in countries like India, Guatemala, and El Salvador.Through an effective supply chain and economies of scale, Scojo Foundation provides high-quality reading glasses, previously unavailable in the communities where we work, at an affordable price. Scojo Foundation, because of its relationship to Scojo Vision, LLC., is able to source glasses at low cost and that low cost is passed onto the Scojo Vision Entrepreneurs. The Scojo Vision Entrepreneurs, in turn, sell the glasses to customers in their communities thereby enabling the women to earn a sustainable source of income. Our hope is to keep consumer prices low enough so that everyone, regardless of their socio-economic background, can afford clear near vision and access to advanced eye care services. They aim to provide reading glasses to 1.6 billion people across the globe. In El Salvador, Guatemala and India, Scojo Foundation identifies trains and supports community-based women entrepreneurs as "Vision Entrepreneurs" to sell reading glasses. They also partner with local organizations; they as partners help local organizations by providing them loans, funds, technical assistance, data collections, etc. and in return the local organizations help Scojo foundation by providing them with weekly data reports to Scojo on sales, identify local low income women to participate in the Scojo program.
www.scojofoundation.org
Labels: prescription glasses, Reading glasses, Socio-economic background, Sustainable income, Vision Entrepreneurs
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