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History of Echo Foundation (East Cape Housing Organisation)
Background to the formation of Echo Foundation.
During 1965, the SA Red Cross Society (Eastern Cape) established a frail care facility - Laubscher Park Home.
This Facility was built to meet the growing need for frail care in the Port Elizabeth area. In the ensuing years, the need for retirement facilities were noted and additional retirement villages were constructed by the Red Cross.
In 1989, a strategic decision was taken by the Red Cross to separate the aged care from its core functions and it was thus formally agreed, that a specialised organisation be established to take over the aged care facilities and retirement villages as going concerns. This decision resulted in the formation of the Echo Foundation on the 1st April 1991.
The Echo Foundation was formed as a section 21 Company, registered as a non-profit organisation, with a defined purpose of; "providing acceptable and cost effective housing, institutional care and community service to senior citizens, thereby offering security and peace of mind."
In order to capacitate the Foundation, assets consisting of various properties were transferred and purchased from the Red Cross Association of South Africa by the Foundation, at a value equal to the outstanding debt on each property. Certain personnel from Red Cross were offered positions within the Foundation, from which the current staff complement was built.
Where are we now?
Our Retirement Villages
.jpg) The Echo Foundation currently owns and manages twelve retirement villages within the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality in the coastal City of Port Elizabeth, situated in the Eastern Cape of Southern Africa.
Our Admittance Criteria
Our services extend to qualifying persons older than 60 years of age, predominately residing within the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality.
Our tenure options Two types of tenure options are offered, namely, life right and rental.
Life Right
The life right option provides life time usage of the housing unit by the purchaser and his or her spouse, with the added benefit of guaranteed admittance into the Foundation's frail care facilities at a reduced cost.
On the vacating or death of the remaining spouse, the housing unit becomes part of the Foundations rental stock, for future rental to qualifying persons at a subsidised rental.
Life right purchase is only available as and when new housing developments are undertaken.
Rentals
Rental contracts are for an indefinate period with the option of a one month notice period on the part of the tenant and runs for the duration of the lessee's or the remaining spouse's life time.
The rental tenure option further provides guaranteed admittance to the Foundation's Frail care facilities, at the applicable monthly rate prevailing at the time of admittance. Details of rentals are available on request.
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Our Frail Care and Sick Bay Homes
In order to provide residents with holistic nursing care, the Foundation owns and manages a frail care and sick bay facility at its Munro Kirk and Lapa Munnik Homes, which are in close proximity to all of its existing retirement villages.
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