My Name is
Erick
Erick
Erick’s mother died a few hours after he was born due to complications with his delivery. His father remains unknown. Erick's grandmother tried to care for him, but she ended up taking him to a short-term orphanage due to her own failing health. They asked that Erick be placed at the Rafiki Village Tanzania, and he arrived in 2010. Erick is a young man who knows how to work hard in school. His diligence will serve him well in the future. Erick is also a good tennis player; he works hard and enjoys playing the game. He says that he relies on God to help him get through each day.
DOB: Jun 10, 2005
Leah
Leah was abandoned as a baby, and her parents remain unknown.
Tapiwa
Tapiwa and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Memory
Memory and her twin brother, Uchizi, had no family to care for them. Their mother died, and their father remains unknown.
Rachel
Rachel is a double orphan. Both of her parents died tragically in 2007 and 2008.
Timothy
Timothy’s father died in 2002 of whooping cough, and his mother died several months later after a brief period of illness.
Eves
After the death of both of her parents, Eves was left in the care of an impoverished aunt who could not properly feed her.
Josiah
Josiah's mother is deceased, and his father remains unknown. He and his twin brother Joseph arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya in 2003.
Obadiah
Obadiah was found abandoned as a small child in 2006 in Paynesville, Liberia.
Paulina
Paulina’s father died before she was born, and her mother died in 2003.
Ebenezer
Ebenezer and his brother, Edmund, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in May 2009.
Haggart
After both Haggart's parents died, he arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
John
John’s father had been deceased for a few years when his mother died in 2007.
Wongani
Both Wongani's parents died by the time he was two years old.
Adella
After the death of her parents, Adella lived with her single aunt.
Aida
Aida was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by the Katherine Hines Ministries, a local orphanage in Kampala.
Michael
Michael’s mother abandoned him, and his father is unknown.
Julie
Following the death of their parents, Julie and her two sisters were placed in the care of an aunt.
Kefas
Kafes’s father died a few months before he was born, and his mother died when he was two years old.
Chloe
Chloe is a double orphan; both of her parents died when she was around three years old.
Ben
Before arriving at the Rafiki village, Ben and his five siblings lived with their grandmother, along with her six children, in a one-room house.
Eric
After his mother died, Eric and his older brother, Eliya, were placed in the care of their aunt.
Tonny
Tonny’s mother abandoned him immediately after birth.
Gadissa
Gadissa, along with his sister Feyise, were orphaned in 2008 and placed in the care of an impoverished aunt.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.