My Name is
Brenda
Brenda
Brenda's mother is deceased and her father is in prison. She and her twin sister Belis have an uncle who was unable to properly care for them. The girls were referred to the Rafiki Village Kenya and arrived together in 2006. Brenda is industrious, committed, and shows interest in physical education. She especially enjoys volleyball, soccer, and shot-put. She has also developed an increased interest in language arts, especially literature and grammar. She has learned from the Rafiki Bible Study that she must be at peace with others, encourage the fainthearted, and be patient with everyone.
DOB: Nov 12, 2002
Michelle
Abenezer
Abenezer was just fifteen days old when his teenage mother gave him over to his grandmother.
Rhoda
Rhoda's mother died when she was a small child, and her father abandoned her.
Elikem
Elikem and his sister, Abena, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2003.
Mediatrice
Mediatrice’s parents became sick and both died in 2007.
Austin
In December of 2008 Austin went to live with an aunt in Monrovia after his parents died.
Maureen
Maureen's parents died in a road accident in 2004.
Francesca
Francesca's mentally ill mother would leave her, her brother Martey, and her sister Selom unattended for days at a time.
Jimmy
Jimmy and his two sisters, Jamesetta and Amelia, arrived at Rafiki Village Liberia in October 2012.
Gideon
Gideon's parents were killed in 2010 when mudslides buried their village and the families living there.
Morris
Morris’ was brought to an orphanage in Kitui in April, 2003 after both his parents died.
Francis
Francis and his sister, Pamela, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
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...
Joseph
Joseph is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2007.
Maria
Maria’s mother died giving birth to her, and her father died in a car accident in 2008.
Frank
Frank’s father was killed in a car accident, and his mother died of an illness when he was a young child.
Malesse
Malesse and his twin sister, Zalalem, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Gerald
After the death of both Gerald’s parents, he was living with his older sister.
Timothy
Timothy was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a local orphanage in Kampala, Uganda after he was abandoned and given to his grandmother as an...
Winnie
After her mother died, Winnie was sent to live with her uncle.
Peace
Peace and her sister, Gift, were orphaned in 2010 when their father died of AIDs.
Bethuel
Denis
After the death of their father, Denis and his brother, Charles, went to live with their impoverished aunt in a small room, one-room house.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.