Children With Rare Diseases

Faith is an affectionate, fun, chatty, loving, warm 14-year-old with a great sense of humour

She was born with a small deletion on the short arm of chromosome 11 known as WAGR syndrome. This genetic problem caused her to have the condition aniridia amongst other complications, glaucoma, cataracts and nystagmus (wobbly eyes) all forming to give a sight ratio of around 3/60 and recognized medically as severely visually impaired/blind.