My Name is
Gershom
Gershom
Gershom’s mother died in April 2007, and his father died some years before that. After his mothers death, Gershom was temporarily cared for by a pastor from his home village. Social services believed that Gershom would benefit greatly from a permanent home environment and asked for him to be placed in the care of the Rafiki Foundation. Gershom joined the Rafiki Village Zambia in 2008. Gershom loves to read and learn. His best subject is grammar. He also enjoys exercising, and it teaches him about the value of hard work. He continues to pray that his relationship with God will grow as he ages and matures.
DOB: Jun 10, 2005
Patrick
Patrick’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father was mentally ill and unable to care for him.
John
John arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 after both of his parents died.
Dativa
Dativa’s mother died of AIDs, and her father is unknown to the family.
Glen
Glen was found abandoned in 2005.
Kirk
Kirk was found abandoned at the police lines in the city of Nairobi, Kenya.
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.
Jehu
Jehu's mother died of yellow fever and his father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Jonah
Jonah’s father died when he was just a year old, and his mother died soon after.
Adonay
Adonay's mother tried to abandon him on the street in the Somali Region, but a man from the health station intervened and gave her some money to...
Priscilla
Priscilla's father went missing after riots broke out near their village when she was a child.
Dereck
Dereck and his twin sister, Diana, were brought to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2006.
Bernice
Shadreck
Shadreck’s mother died in 2005, and his father died in 2006.
Deborah
Deborah’s parents were living in Uganda when they both died from an illness. Deborah and her sister Jane were then brought to Rwanda.
Beatrice
After both Beatrice's parents died, she lived with her grandparents and four brothers and sisters for a time.
Denise
When Denise was one month old, she was abandoned at the Kenyatta National hospital.
Aneth
After the death of her parents, Aneth lived with her single aunt.
Kefas
Kafes’s father died a few months before he was born, and his mother died when he was two years old.
Martha
Martha's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Robel
Robel and his sister, Etsub, lived with their mother until she became terminally ill with liver disease.
Diana
Gloria
Gloria and her twin sister Olivia were abandoned and given to a paternal uncle when their father died.
Malesse
Malesse and his twin sister, Zalalem, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.