My Name is
Atsu
Atsu
Atsu arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009. Atsu loves to play soccer, and he dreams of playing professionally for Ghana. He knows Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. From the Rafiki Bible Study, he has learned that Christians are to live lives that are pleasing to God by reading His Word and living according to it.
DOB: Oct 24, 2006
Micah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Israel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Francesca
Francesca's mentally ill mother often left her and her two siblings unattended for days at a time.
Benon
Benon was born to a fifteen-year-old mother who died in child birth. His grandfather was old and unable to care for him. He was brought to an...
Etsub
Etsub and her brother, Robel, lived with their mother before she became terminally ill with liver disease.
Paul
Paul was found abandoned as a small child and taken to the local police station.
Simon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Munyithya
Munyithya's father died four months after he was born, and his mother followed eighteen months later before his second birthday.
Thomas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Derrick
Derrick was referred to Rafiki by a local children's ministry.
Kiziya
Kiziya’s father died in 2006 after a brief illness, and her mother died while giving birth to her younger brother, Isaac.
Jordan
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gideon
Gideon and his twin brothers arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Gelane
Gelane’s parents died two years apart from one another.
Kalkidan
Kalkidan was abandoned at a very young age, so his elderly grandparents cared for him.
Erick
Erick lived with his impoverished uncle who could not provide for his needs before arriving at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Thomas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Francis
Francis and his sister, Pamela, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Elizabeth
After Elizabeth’s mother died in July of 2005, her children came to live with their maternal aunt who worked as a mother’s assistant at the Rafiki...
Dativa
Dativa and her half sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel and his sister, Mary, were born to a mentally-ill mother who lacked the mental and physical faculties to care for them, and their father...
Tapiwa
When Tapiwa and her three sisters lost their parents in 2010, they were placed in the care of their widowed grandmother.
Fiskani
Fiskani’s mother is deceased and his father abandoned him.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.