Born with strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes, Prince had struggled with reading, writing, and keeping up in school since her earliest days.
“Whenever she was writing or reading, after a while you would see her eyes starting to drift,” recalls her older sister, who accompanied her to the hospital during our recent Flying Eye Hospital project. “It really affected her life as a student."
Strabismus wasn’t just a physical challenge for Prince—it also left her vulnerable to teasing from other children. While she may have been too young to fully express how it made her feel, her sister could see the potential impact on her confidence.
With ten children in the family, her sister often takes on a caregiving role, sometimes even mistaken for the mother by the youngest siblings. Watching Prince struggle had been difficult. “I’m happy she had the surgery while she’s still young,” her sister says. “Now she can grow up without feeling self-conscious or different from her siblings.”
