My Name is
Claude

Claude
Claude arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009. He soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving environment at the Village. Claude is a thinker, but he also knows how to laugh and have fun. He enjoys learning about science, and he especially enjoys performing experiments. Claude has learned about living a holy life, loving others, and imitating Jesus through studying God's Word in the Rafiki Bible Study. Claude is a day student at the Rafiki School in Rwanda.
DOB: Nov 6, 2006
Dennis
Dennis lived with his grandmother after his mother became mentally ill and incapable of caring for him, and his father abandoned the family when he...
William
William was brought to a hospital with head injuries in August 2003.
Jack
After Jack’s mother died in 2006, he began living with his grandparents. His grandmother died soon after that.
Hope
Hope and her half sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Samuel
Samuel’s father died in 2003, and his mother died in 2005.
Kwaku
Kwaku’s mother died nine days after giving birth to him and his twin sister.
Winston
Both of Winston’s parents are deceased.
Godiya
Godiya’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was a year old.
Dinah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Sindani
Sindani and her two older sisters were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their parents.
Joseph
Joseph’s mother died when he was nine months old, and his father is unknown.
Elijah
Elijah was referred to Rafiki by an orphanage four hours away from the Village.
Jennifer
Jennifer is one of three triplets. She and her sisters, Janet and Joanna, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Baraka
Baraka’s mother abandoned him at a young age, and his father is unknown.
Semegne
Semegne was orphaned shortly after she was born. No one knows her mother's whereabouts, and her father is dead.
Ruth
Both of Ruth's parents are deceased. She and her brother Christopher lived with their grandmother before she sought help from social welfare...
Jessica
Jessica was found abandoned as an infant at a community school on September 14, 2009 and was taken to the police station.
Grace
Grace's parents are both deceased. As an infant, she was in the care of an aunt who soon was unable to care for her properly.
Bethuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Eunice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ariet
Ariet and her little brother Frankson were orphaned when their mother died in 2009.
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Simon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.