My Name is
Esther

Esther
Esther and her sister, Celestina, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009. Esther is a sociable young woman who enjoys making new friends. Her favorite sport is basketball, and she enjoys studying history and French. Esther has learned from the Rafiki Bible Study that as God's child, she needs to make choices that lead to a life that pleases the Lord.
DOB: Apr 8, 2007
Ariet
Ariet and her little brother Frankson were orphaned when their mother died in 2009.
Praise
Praise's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father abandoned him.
Micheal
When he was two months old, Michael was abandoned at a shop in Kampala, Uganda. Michael then came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in February of 2005.
Brenda
Both of Brenda's parents passed away in 2005 of an illness.
Yeani
Yeani's parents died in 2010, and she was placed in the care of an aunt.
Beauregard
Beauregard’s mother died soon after giving birth to him in November, 2006.
Peter
Both of Peter’s parents were killed during religious riots that occurred in 2004 in a village about two hours away from Jos, Nigeria.
Olivier
Olivier arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Bethlehem
Bethlehem's (Betty's) mother abandoned her to go find work and left her with a neighbor.
Jane
Jane and her twin brother Jimmy were brought to a police station after their mother died in a local hospital.
Elikana
Elikana is a double orphan. She and her sister Mercy were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let alone...
Witness
Witness lived most of her early life in an orphanage.
Erica
Erica and her sister, Priscilla, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Sumaya
Sumaya's father died when she was a young child, and her mother started living with another man who was unwilling to care for her.
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Estery
Both of Estery's (Esther) parents passed away from an illness when she was a young child.
Bernice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Dinah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Hope
Hope and her half sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Julius
Julius’s mother abandoned him after his father died. He came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in March 2008.
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Christopher
Christopher lost both of his parents between 2002 and 2003.
Reuben
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.