Valerie Kerubo who nearly went blind prior to exams scores B-

Valerie Kerubo who nearly went blind prior to exams.(Photo: Stanley Ongwae/Standard )

Sometime last year, Valerie Kerubo was on the verge of losing her eyesight, yet she was about to sit her final high school exams. Kerubo stayed close to five months out of school as her parents sought a solution to her crippling eye problem.

So bad was the issue, she could not read a book yet she was expected to prepare for her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams that were due in November. According to specialists at PCEA Kikuyu Eye Hospital, if an urgent eye operation was not done, she would go blind in six months. Her corneas, a critical component of the eye, was diseased and the only hope was a transplant.