My Name is
Cilicia
Cilicia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or subsidies. They receive an excellent classical Christian education, daily Bible study, two nutritious meals per day, and basic school supplies. For a child in Africa, attending school means more than ABCs or 123s; it means a hope for a future – spiritually and materially. Your support makes that hope possible for these day students, their families, and their communities. We have given each day student an alias for the privacy and protection of the child and his/her family. If you sponsor a day student, you will receive some additional information about the child and will communicate with the child using the assigned alias.
DOB: Dec 19, 2013
Tonny
Tonny’s mother abandoned him immediately after birth.
Stella
Stella was abandoned by her mother at Kakamega Provincial General Hospital.
Rachel
Rachel is a double orphan. Both of her parents died tragically in 2007 and 2008.
Faith
Faith’s mother passed away as a result of severe pneumonia.
Perpetual
Perpetual arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in November 2010.
Samuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Patience
Patience was abandoned by her mother in 2005, and her father cared for her until he died in 2008.
Awumbe
Awumbe and his brother and sister, Atimbil and Azuma, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Patrick
Patrick’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father was mentally ill and unable to care for him.
Elijah
Elijah was referred to Rafiki by an orphanage four hours away from the Village.
Leul
After Leul's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Gelane
Gelane’s parents died two years apart from one another.
Gloria
Gloria and her twin sister Olivia were abandoned and given to a paternal uncle when their father died.
Jummai
Both Jummai's parents died within two years of each other, and Jummai and her brother Ezekiel were left to be raised by her grandmother.
Grace
Grace’s teenage mother gave birth to her and then left the hospital the next morning, abandoning her infant.
Epa
Epa arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Dereck
Dereck and his twin sister were brought to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2006.
Jamila
Jamila's mother gave her over to the care of her aunt.
Mary
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Zelalem
Zelalem and her twin brother, Malesse, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Yigerem
In 2001, Yigerem's parents died and his uncle began caring for him.
Grace
Grace was orphaned when she was only three months old.
Onesmus
Onesmus's mother passed away two months after he was born.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.