My Name is
Ebenezer
Ebenezer
Ebenezer and his brother, Edmund, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in May 2009. Ebenezer is artistic and creative, and he could spend hours drawing and coloring. He is a helpful young man who enjoys helping his teachers clean their classrooms. Ebenezer knows Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. He has learned from the Rafiki Bible Study that he should always be ready for the coming of the Lord and continue to read and study the Bible.
DOB: May 18, 2006
Loveness
Loveness is a double orphan; her mother died just ten months after she was born, and her father died some time before that.
Moses
Moses was removed from his mother in January 2003 for his protection.
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...
Jacob
Jacob is a double orphan. He lived with his aunt for a time after his parents died.
Vivian
Vivian’s mother was mentally ill, and her father was unknown.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel's mother died two days after he was born.
Caleb
Caleb’s parents died when he was four years old, and his relatives were unable to care for him because they are impoverished and relied on...
Hope
Hope was placed in the care of her aunt and uncle after the death of her parents.
Sarah
Sarah's father is deceased, and her mother gave her and her siblings to her great grandmother.
Simon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
John Mueke
Very few details are known about John. His mother is deceased and his father is presumed to be as well.
Blessing
Blessing’s father died in a motor accident before she was born, and her mother died three weeks after her birth.
Frank
Frank’s father was killed in a car accident, and his mother died of an illness when he was a young child.
Comfort
Comfort arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Dadi
Both of Dadi’s parents died in 2005.
Mary
Mary lived in the A. I. Children's Home in Kitui before coming to Rafiki.
Paul
Paul had no one to care for him after the death of his father in 2006.
Vincent
Vincent and his brother, Rabson, lived with their grandmother after their parents died in 2011.
Denis
After the death of his mother, Denis was sent to the Nest, an organization funded by Catholic ministries before arriving at the Rafiki Village in...
Biruk
Biruk’s mother was very young when she gave birth to him.
Bernice
After the death of their parents, Bernice and her two sisters were placed in the care of an aunt.
Yeabsira
Yeabisira's mother left him with her brother when he was just one year old, and his father remains unknown.
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.