My eyes shrunk in size, affected my walking

Corneal blindness remains the second most prevalent eye condition globally. [iStockphoto]

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, but for many people those windows develop unwanted curtains, dimming lives at the prospect of losing sight.

And it all starts when the cornea, that transparent part of the eye that allows in light, getting clouded by infection. The vision slowly disappears, leaving one in a new dark, but the unfamiliar world.