Local generosity gives blind girl hope

A BLIND schoolgirl who needed to raise €30,000 for a revolutionary treatment in China to restore her sight has been given a date for the procedure — after raising the cash in just weeks.

Local generosity gives blind girl hope

Keri Kelly, 9, has been blind since birth but was given hope by doctors using groundbreaking stem-cell treatment.

Keri, who is a pupil at Scoil Íosagáin in Buncrana, Co Donegal, has already revealed how the first things she wants to see are mum Tracey’s face, a rainbow and the moon “because her sister told her it was made of cheese”.

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