Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 Author: For Suman, growing up in a remote village in eastern Nepal, life took a sudden turn the year she turned five. She had just started first grade and was embarrassed to find she was having trouble reading the words on the blackboard. As her vision became more and more blurry, Suman mustered the courage to tell her mum Deepa about her struggles. With tears streaming down her face, Suman admitted that she was struggling to keep up at school. Knowing she didn’t have the money to take her to a doctor, Deepa told Suman to just try harder. And so, she struggled on.