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THE PARENTS of a boy born without eyes due to a rare congenital condition desperately need to raise at least €300,000 to fund a series of surgeries in Germany for the child over the next seven years.

Six months old Jacob Nowak was born with anophthalmos, a very rare condition affecting only one in 100,000 children. He had developed no optical nerves or eyeballs and his parents were told he would never be able to see.