My Name is
Joseph

Joseph
Joseph's mother was disabled, and they were displaced as a result of the 2007 post-presidential-election violence. Joseph's grandmother, though she tried, could not provide for his basic needs. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya in 2011. Since then, Joseph has matured academically and socially. He enjoys studying math and biology. He excels in every subject and is a hard-working student who exhibits self-confidence and has excellent manners. He has learned from the Rafiki Bible Study that we should live a life pleasing to God. Joseph is growing spiritually by reading God's Word, understanding it, and putting it into action.
DOB: Jan 22, 2009
Ellen
Ellen arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in November of 2010.
Khumbo
Khumbo's mother died in 2007 when he was two years old, and his father’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Innocent
Innocent was abandoned as a young child and was then referred to a babies' home.
Jennifer
Jennifer is one of three triplets. She and her sisters, Janet and Joanna, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Simon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Divine
Divine arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Anna
Anna was left on a porch in Monrovia, Liberia when she was eighteen months old.
Ezekiel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Bethany
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Anne
Anne’s mother is physically handicapped and unable to care for her.
Veronica
Veronica and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Jeremiah
Before Jeremiah arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2011, he lived at a children's home in Moshi for four years with no known family.
Adeline
Adeline arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Fortuna
Fortuna and her brother Surafel were left in their uncle's care when their mother and father died.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s mother died when he was eighteen months old, and his father is unknown.
Gershom
Gershom’s mother died in April 2007, and his father died some years before that.
Abel
Abel's mother died when he was one year old, and his father remains unknown.
Catherine
Catherine’s mother died in 2005, and her father committed suicide in 2008.
John
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Martha
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Sarah
Sarah was born prematurely in a private clinic in March 2005. Her mother disappeared soon after she took Sarah to the hospital, and her father...
Frank
Frank's mother is deceased, and his father is in prison. After his father was imprisoned, Frank was left in the care of an elderly widowed neighbor.
Erica
Erica and her sister, Priscilla, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.