My Name is
Laurine

Laurine
Laurine’s parents died in 2006, and she arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi a year later. She soon radiated with joy and embraced her new life. Laurine enjoys singing and making music, and she is the leader of the six-member "Amazing Grace Choir." Laurine believes that nothing can separate her from God's love for her. She is determined to love others as Jesus has loved her.
DOB: Nov 30, 2000
Joyce
Very little is known about Joyce’s life before Rafiki.
Derrick
Derrick was referred to Rafiki by a local children's ministry.
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Levi
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Zawady
Zawady is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2006.
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Emily
Before Emily arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007, she was in the care of an aunt and uncle who did not have the means to properly feed her.
Joe
Joe was placed in the care of an aunt after his mother and father died.
Caroline
Caroline's parents died within one year of each other before she turned three years old.
Olivia
Olivia and her twin sister, Gloria, were placed in the care of their uncle after their father died.
James
James was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a social worker from a group in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.
Jane
Jane and her sister and cousin arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2012.
Estery
Both of Estery's (Esther) parents passed away from an illness when she was a young child.
Karen
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Samuel
Samuel’s father died in 2003, and his mother died in 2005.
Moses
Moses and his twin sister were abandoned at a shopping center, found by strangers, and taken to a local district hospital.
Jean
Jean arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2013.
Isaac
Isaac’s mother died an hour after she gave birth to him, and his father shortly abandoned him after he was born.
Yaw
Yaw and his two sisters arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Pamela
Pamela and her brother, Francis, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Lillian
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Selah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Juliet
Both of Juliet’s parents died when she was about two years old. She was then placed in the care of her impoverished grandmother.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.