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My Name is
Mai
Mai
At age four, Mai was taken by a caretaker to Monrovia, Liberia to begin school. However, instead of being enrolled in school, Mai was made to haul water each morning, sell goods daily in the local market, and then walk home alone each night and do household chores until 10 p.m. Her neighbors noticed what was happening and notified the police. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare ruled Mai to be abandoned: her caretaker fled, and she has no known relatives. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Liberia in 2012. Now, Mai hopes to be a nurse when she grows up. She wants to help others feel better and teach them how to be healthy. Her favorite verse is Matthew 11:30.
DOB: Feb 3, 2006
Peter
Peter's mother died of meningitis one month after his birth.
Ruth
Ruth’s mother abandoned her and placed her in the care of her elderly grandmother.
Mitchiel
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Innocent
Both of Innocent's parents are deceased. Soon after his mother's death, Innocent was diagnosed with tuberculosis and began treatment.
Neema
After the death of her mother and father, Neema lived with her elderly grandmother and adult sister.
Linda
Linda’s parents died in 2006, and she and her sister, Beatrice, were then left in the care of their aunt.
Kwame
Kwame, along with his brother and sister, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Grace
Grace was orphaned when she was only three months old.
Etsub
Etsub and her brother, Robel, lived with their mother before she became terminally ill with liver disease.
Eliya
After Eliya’s parents died, he was placed in the care of his aunt.
Elizabeth
After Elizabeth’s mother died in July of 2005, her children came to live with their maternal aunt who worked as a mother’s assistant at the Rafiki...
Emmanuel
Emmanuel and his sister, Mary, were born to a mentally-ill mother who lacked the mental and physical faculties to care for them, and their father...
Gelane
Gelane’s parents died two years apart from one another.
Tumsifu
Tumsifu was abandoned at birth and spent his first five years of his life at an orphanage in Tanzania.
Moses
Social Services recommended that Moses be removed from his home because his parents could not take care of him properly.
Anastazia
Anastazia is a double orphan. She and her brother Innocent arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2008 and soon benefited from the quality care,...
Martha
After the death of her parents, Martha and her sisters lived with their aunt.
Joseph
Very little is known about Joseph's early years, except that his mother died and his father abandoned him.
Lisa
Lisa’s mother died when she was two years old, and her father died two years later.
Ruth
Ruth’s mother died in September 2002, and her father is unknown.
Shadreck
Shadreck’s mother died in 2005, and his father died in 2006.
Thandiwe
After her mother's death, Thandiwe was sent to live with her great grandmother.
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
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