My Name is
Lydia

Lydia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or subsidies. They receive an excellent classical Christian education, daily Bible study, two nutritious meals per day, and basic school supplies. For a child in Africa, attending school means more than ABCs or 123s; it means a hope for a future – spiritually and materially. Your support makes that hope possible for these day students, their families, and their communities. We have given each day student an alias for the privacy and protection of the child and his/her family. If you sponsor a day student, you will receive some additional information about the child and will communicate with the child using the assigned alias.
DOB: Sep 24, 2010
Candace
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Grace
Grace's parents died within one year of each other, and she was then put in the care of a maternal aunt.
Zelalem
Zelalem and her twin brother, Malesse, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Jonathan
Not much is known about Jonathan’s parents.
Grace
Grace and her brother, Martin, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2005.
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Praise
Praise's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father abandoned him.
Grace
Grace lived with her grandmother after the death of her mother and father in 2006.
Aynalem
Aynalem was three years old when her mother died. Her father remains unknown.
Mediatrice
Mediatrice arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Titus
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Grace
Grace's parents are both deceased. As an infant, she was in the care of an aunt who soon was unable to care for her properly.
Judith
Judith’s mother passed away when she was young, and she was then cared for by various relatives before arriving at the Rafiki Village Kenya in 2004.
Jehu
Jehu's mother died of yellow fever and his father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Cossam
Cossam arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 following the death of both of his parents.
Romeo
Romeo's grandmother cared for him after the death of his parents.
Rena
Rena’s mother died from malaria complications three months after giving birth to Rena and her twin sister, Serena.
Patience
Patience’s mother died a month after she was born. Her father was killed a year later in a farming accident.
Miatta
Miatta’s mother died of yellow fever and her father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Michael
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Brian
Brian’s mother died at childbirth, and his father remains unknown. Brian was then placed in an orphanage about four hours from the Rafiki Village...
Estery
Both of Estery's (Esther) parents passed away from an illness when she was a young child.
Thandiwe
After her mother's death, Thandiwe was sent to live with her great grandmother.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.