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Healing hands: I can't see but my fingers do the walking

When Winnie Awino suddenly lost her sight as an adult, her dream of becoming a pilot hit a snag. Awino was born a normal child, but with minor eye-related issues which led to an eye surgery when she was in lower primary school.

"I was given spectacles which I used till Class Five," she said. She never experienced any eye-related ailments until the day she woke up blind.

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