My Name is
Evess

Evess
After the death of both of her parents, Evess was left in the care of an impoverished aunt who could not properly feed her. When she arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi, she was very malnourished. She adjusted well to her new, healthy diet and grew out of her new clothes quickly. Evess works hard in her studies, and she especially likes science classes. She also does well in language arts class and likes to help her classmates study. Evess knows Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior, and she understands that only Jesus can set sinners right with God.
DOB: Jul 20, 2003
Sarah
Sarah's father is deceased, and her mother gave her and her siblings to her great grandmother.
Priscilla
Priscilla's father went missing after riots broke out near their village when she was a child.
Innocent
Innocent is a double orphan. He and his sister were approved by Social Welfare to come to Rafiki in May 2008. They have rapidly transformed thanks...
Joyce
Very little is known about Joyce’s life before Rafiki.
Lazarus
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Samson
At a very young age, Samson was abandoned and taken to a local orphanage.
Elijah
Elijah was referred to Rafiki by an orphanage four hours away from the Village.
Gideon
Gideon and his younger twin brothers arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Rachel
Rachel’s mother died shortly after giving birth to her, and her father remains unknown. Rachel was referred to the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2006...
Jack
Jack is a double orphan who was living with his impoverished grandmother.
Judith
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Valante
Valante arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda 2010.
Nancy
Nancy’s father died in war and her mother died while delivering her younger sister, Patricia.
Yigerem
In 2001, Yigerem's parents died and his uncle began caring for him.
Francesca
Francesca's mentally ill mother would leave her, her brother Martey, and her sister Selom unattended for days at a time.
Andrew
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2008, Andrew was a double orphan living with his impoverished aunt who only survived off the...
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Hope
Hope’s father died HIV positive, and his mother was also living HIV positive and was very sick. She wanted Hope placed in a good home before she died.
Jemima
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Yordanos
Yordanos’s mother abandoned her, leaving her with her grandfather, in 2006.
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Obadiah
Obadiah was found abandoned as a small child in 2006 in Paynesville, Liberia.
Samuel
Samuel was found wandering the streets of his village when he was two years old.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.