My Name is
Emmanuel
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 abandoned them. For the first three years of Emmanuel’s life, he lived on the streets. He and his sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2002. Emmanuel reports that he sees God's faithfulness in guiding him to the Rafiki Village in Ghana, and he knows that God has His protecting hand on him.
DOB: Mar 6, 1999
John
John has charm and charisma; he is a happy boy and has a quick smile in spite of his difficult start in life.
Beatrice
Beatrice’s mother was mentally ill and living on the streets.
Leah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mabel
Mabel, her brother, and her sister moved to the Rafiki Village Ghana in August 2010.
Phoebe
Not much is known about Phoebe’s life before she came to Rafiki.
Kebah
After being abandoned by their mother, Kebah and her brother Michael were removed from their abusive caretaker.
Faith
Faith’s mother passed away as a result of severe pneumonia.
Victoria
Vicky was abandoned by both her parents at birth and brought to the state-run orphanage in Jos, Nigeria.
Purity
After her parents died in 2004, Purity was placed in the care of her aunt and uncle.
Abenezer
Abenezer was just fifteen days old when his teenage mother gave him over to his grandmother.
Rahab
Rahab’s mother was unable to care for her and her father remains unknown.
Ringabell
Ringabell’s mother died from poisoning and her father died of typhoid fever.
Micheal
When he was two months old, Michael was abandoned at a shop in Kampala, Uganda. Michael then came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in February of 2005.
Agnes
Agnes was abandoned by her family and was referred to the Rafiki Village Uganda at two years of age.
Lucy
After Lucy's parents died in 2011, she lived with an unemployed uncle and his children until Social Welfare contacted the Rafiki Foundation in 2012...
Zachariah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Dativa
Dativa and her half sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Tumsifu
Tumsifu was abandoned at birth and spent his first five years of his life at an orphanage in Tanzania.
Zerubabel
After Zerubabel's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Ethan
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Comfort
Both of Comfort’s parents died when she was a young child. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2004.
Robel
Robel and his sister, Etsub, lived with their mother until she became terminally ill with liver disease.
Darris
Darris's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.