My Name is
Adele
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney disease. He was unemployed and unable to pay his medical bills. He appealed to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare for Adele and her brother, Teeweh, to be placed in a good facility for care and education. In March 2012, they arrived at the Rafiki Village Liberia. Adele enjoys studying math and science. She hopes to use her interest in math and science to be an astronaut when she grows up. She enjoys reading the Bible, and her faith has grown by being faithful in prayer. Adele's favorite hymn is "Take My Life and Let It Be."
DOB: Dec 24, 2008
Moses
Social Services recommended that Moses be removed from his home because his parents could not take care of him properly.
Blessed
Blessed’s mother abandoned her four days after her birth at the Kakamega Provincial General Hospital.
Elikem
Elikem and his sister, Abena, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2003.
Joseph
Joseph’s mother died shortly after giving birth to him and his twin brother, James.
Michael
Michael’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and his father died after an accident.
James
James was orphaned after his mother was involved in a fatal road accident in April 2005.
Etsub
Etsub and her brother, Robel, lived with their mother before she became terminally ill with liver disease.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s father died in a mountain climbing accident shortly before Emanuel was born, and his mother died when he was five years old.
Molly
Molly was abandoned when she was eight months old and brought to a local police station in 2003.
Victoria
Vicky was abandoned by both her parents at birth and brought to the state-run orphanage in Jos, Nigeria. Vicky was severely malnourished and in...
Centia
Centia’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was about seven months old.
Munyithya
Munyithya's father died four months after he was born, and his mother followed eighteen months later before his second birthday.
Abraham
Abraham's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother, Wesen, eighteen months later.
Comfort
Both of Comfort’s parents died when she was a young child. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2004.
Jackson
Jackson’s mother and father died of health complications in 2013.
James
James’s father died HIV+, and his mother also had HIV.
Pererat
Pererat’s mother died soon after he was born, and his father disappeared after the Jos riots in 2008.
Watson
Watson arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 with his older brother Benjamin.
Sumaya
Sumaya's father died when she was a young child, and her mother started living with another man who was unwilling to care for her.
Khumbo
Khumbo's mother died in 2007 when he was two years old, and his father’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Eunice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Enoch
Enoch’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father remains unknown.
Juliet
Juliet lost her mother in 2003 and her father in 2004. She was then put in the care of an aunt who could not care for her basic needs. She arrived...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.