These two Kenyan ladies were best friends from neighboring villages, but they'd stopped seeing each other, literally, for 10 years, because both had gone blind from a curable condition called cataracts.
Estas dos mujeres kenianas  eran las mejores amigas de pueblos vecinos, pero dejaron de verse,  literalmente, durante 10 años, porque ambas se quedaron ciegas  debido a cataratas, una condición curable.