My Name is
Alice
Alice
Alice arrived at Rafiki Village Rwanda in November 2009. She soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving family environment. Alice is an excellent student and highly motivated to do her best work. Alice has learned that she needs to pray to God when she is uncertain about the future. She has to trust that God has a good plan for her, and this gives her hope and courage. She gives God praise for the answers to prayer she has seen. Alice is a boarding student at the Rafiki Village Rwanda.
DOB: Jan 27, 2006
Irene
After both her mother and father abandoned her, Irene lived with her grandmother for a time.
Abraham
Abraham's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother, Wesen, eighteen months later.
Boaz
Boaz's mother lacked the mental and physical faculties to adequately care for him. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2008.
Flavia
Flavia and her three siblings were living in a situation that required immediate intervention according to Uganda social welfare.
Maurin
After the death of Maurin's parents, she and her younger brother, Kelvin, went to live with their grandparents.
Dennis
Dennis lived with his grandmother after his mother became mentally ill and incapable of caring for him, and his father abandoned the family when he...
Janjay
Janjay’s mother died after giving birth to her, and her father died shortly after in a car accident.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Umu
Blessing lived with her aunt for about two years following her father's death and her mother's disappearance.
Paul
Paul had no one to care for him after the death of his father in 2006.
Bertha
Bertha lost both of her parents to an illness.
Felistas
Felistas’ mother died shortly after giving birth to her sister, Gracious, and their father abandoned them.
Kalkidan
Kalkidan was abandoned at a very young age, so his elderly grandparents cared for him.
Violet
After Violet’s parents died, her elderly grandfather enlisted her for household help with chores, cooking, and carrying firewood.
Adella
After the death of her parents, Adella lived with her single aunt.
Malesse
Malesse and his twin sister, Zelalem, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Jeremiah
Before Jeremiah arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2011, he lived at a children's home in Moshi for four years with no known family.
Israel
Israel’s mother was mentally incapable of caring for him, and his father is unknown.
Enoch
Enoch’s mother died within two months of his birth, and his father remains unknown.
Kofi
In 2006, both of Kofi’s parents died in a vehicular accident while they were transporting their farm produce to a nearby market.
Shadreck
After the death of his parents, Shadreck was in the care of an impoverished widow could not properly feed him.
Abel
Abel was found abandoned as a baby.
Eunice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.