My Name is
Daniel

Daniel
Daniel’s mother and father died in 2006 when he was an infant. He and his sister, Esther, arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2009. Daniel soon proved to be a good student. He also works hard at being an example to others in school. Daniel wants the other boys to look up to him as an example of leadership and to look like the young man God has called him to be.
DOB: Sep 19, 2005
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.
Racheal
After both her parents died, Racheal lived in her grandfather's care.
Celestina
Celestina and her sister, Esther, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009.
Luka
Luka's mother died when he was a young child, and his father abandoned him.
Jonathan
John’s mother died in 2003 in a drowning accident, and his father died later that same year. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2005.
Noah
Noah’s mother died a few days after giving birth to him. He was then placed in the care of his maternal grandmother.
Memory
Memory was found in the care of a 65-year-old widow who lived in a village subsidized by the government for the homeless.
Alex
Alex was living with his widowed mother who was dying from a fatal illness.
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Prisca
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Leah
Leah was abandoned as a baby, and her parents remain unknown.
Josephine
Josephine’s mother died within days after giving birth to her and her twin sister, Theresa
Olivia
Olivia and her twin sister, Gloria, were placed in the care of their uncle after their father died.
Joseph
Joseph is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2007.
Kwame
Kwame, along with his brother and sister, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Victoria
Vicky was abandoned when she was just one week old.
Samuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Lemmy
Lemmy and his sister, Eva, were living with their grandmother, who did not have the means to feed them every day, before they came to Rafiki.
Memory
Memory and her twin brother, Uchizi, had no family to care for them. Their mother died, and their father remains unknown.
Wanangwa
By 2007, Wanangwa had lost both of his parents to fatal illnesses.
John
Both of John’s parents died, leaving him with no one to care for him.
Albert
After the death of both of his parents, Albert arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Zerubabel
After Zerubabel's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.