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Loice Mwende: Woman who sold her eggs to save son

Challenges facing caregivers of children with disabilities. [iStockphoto]

“I was willing to do anything for my child. If selling my eggs would help him see, then I was ready to do it,” Loice Mwende begins

When she walked into a fertility clinic in Nairobi, she was carrying far more than the weight of a difficult decision. She was carrying the hopes of a young mother desperately trying to save her son’s eyesight.

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