My Name is
Josephine

Josephine
Josephine and her twin sister Justina arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi after their mother died and their father abandoned them. Both girls soon began to thrive at the Village. Josephine is an organized student who pays attention and participates well in class. She takes her education seriously and leads her classmates in study time after school. Josephine trusts Jesus because He is always there to carry her through her times of need. She understands the truth that salvation comes by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
DOB: Dec 27, 2001
Martha
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Reuben
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Sharon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Naomi
Naomi’s father died when she was a year old.
Esau
Esau's mother died while delivering his younger brother, Isaac, and his father died the next year in a car accident.
Martey
Martey and his sisters, Selom and Francesca, were often left unattended for days at a time by their mentally ill mother.
Blessed
Blessed’s mother abandoned her four days after her birth at the Kakamega Provincial General Hospital.
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...
Michael
After being abandoned by their mother, Kebah and her brother Michael were removed from their abusive caretaker.
Sarah
Sarah's father is deceased, and her mother gave her and her siblings to her great grandmother.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth's mother died shortly after giving birth to her, and her father disappeared after her mother's death.
Blaze
Blaze arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Alex
Alex and his sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2012.
Susanna
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
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.
Joanna
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Caroline
Caroline's parents died within one year of each other before she turned three years old.
Noah
Noah’s mother died a few days after giving birth to him. He was then placed in the care of his maternal grandmother.
Gadissa
Gadissa, along with his sister Feyise, were orphaned in 2008 and placed in the care of an impoverished aunt.
Winston
Both of Winston’s parents are deceased.
Eve
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Lillian
Lillian lost both her parents to AIDS when she was a young child.
Ariet
Ariet and her little brother Frankson were orphaned when their mother died in 2009.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.