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Katherine
Katherine
Social Services referred Katherine to Rafiki because she was abandoned by her parents. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2006 and has since enjoyed her new home. Kathy loves playing basketball. She is a good team player who displays good sportsmanship. Kathy's favorite subjects are math, English, and biology. She enjoys early sacred music lessons and appreciates the fact that music has been a gift from God since the beginning of the world. Kathy also plays the viola in the Rafiki Youth Orchestra. She seeks to imitate Christ, rejoice in hope, and be in constant prayer.
DOB: Sep 25, 2001
Feyise
Feyise, along with her brother Gadissa, were orphaned in 2008 and placed in the care of an impoverished aunt.
Yeabsira
Yeabisira's mother left him with her brother when he was just one year old, and his father remains unknown.
Susan
Susan's mother is deceased and her father is in jail.
Caleb
Caleb’s parents died when he was four years old, and his relatives were unable to care for him because they are impoverished and relied on...
Tabitha
Tabitha was abandoned as a child, and none of her family members were able to care for her.
Beniyam
Beniyam was born in Mojo. His mother died when he was three years old, and his father abandoned him, giving him to his maternal grandparents.
Sharon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Moses
The death of Moses's father left six orphans.
Furaha
Furaha and her two cousins were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their fathers.
Ermias
Ermias' mother was mentally handicapped. She abandoned Ermias and his sister, Mehiret, and gave them to the care of their impoverished grandmother.
Sarah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Harriet
Harriet's father passed away from AIDs, and her mother was also diagnosed HIV+ and was no longer able to care for her.
Frank
Frank’s father was killed in a car accident, and his mother died of an illness when he was a young child.
Irene
After both her mother and father abandoned her, Irene lived with her grandmother for a time.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel’s mother died in 2007, and his father drowned in a river while fishing in 2009.
Maurin
After the death of Maurin's parents, she and her younger brother, Kelvin, went to live with their grandparents.
Patrick
Patrick’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father was mentally ill and unable to care for him.
John
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Timothy
Timothy was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a local orphanage in Kampala, Uganda after he was abandoned and given to his grandmother as an...
Charles
Charles was abandoned as a baby and taken to a local orphanage. Little is known about his background or his family.
Negassa
Negassa's mother died in 2008, and his father abandoned him soon after her death.
Miriam
Miriam and her younger brother, Daniel, were placed with their grandfather after their parents died.
Nahom
Nahom’s mother died when he was just nine months old, and his father died when he was twenty months old.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
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