My Name is
Mara
Mara
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: Mar 13, 2013
Edwin
Edwin’s father abandoned him when he was a young child, leaving him with his uncle.
Bethany
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Leah
Leah was abandoned as a baby, and her parents remain unknown.
Mphatso
Mphatso's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father remains unknown.
Rabson
Rabson and his brother, Vincent, lived with their grandmother after their parents died in 2011.
Gertrude
Gertrude (Trudy) was orphaned after her father and mother died within a year of each other.
Gladys
Gladys is a double orphan. Her mother died in 2006, and her father died in 2007.
John
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Jeremiah
Before Jeremiah arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2011, he lived at a children's home in Moshi for four years with no known family.
Francisca
Francisca’s mother died after a short illness when Francisca was one year old. Her father died six months later.
Pamela
Pamela and her brother, Francis, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Esther
Esther and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Millicent
After the death of her father and mother, Millicent was placed in the care of her aunt.
Josephine
Josephine and her twin sister Justina arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi after their mother died and their father abandoned them.
Naomi
Naomi and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Irene
After both her mother and father abandoned her, Irene lived with her grandmother for a time.
Martha
Martha's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Randall
Randall was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth.
Doreen
Doreen’s mother abandoned her in 2011, and her father is unknown.
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Blessing
Blessing and her twin brother Dalitso, had moved four times since their mother died when they were babies. They lived at two babies’ homes and then...
Micheal
When he was two months old, Michael was abandoned at a shop in Kampala, Uganda. Michael then came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in February of 2005.
Zelalem
Zelalem and her twin brother, Malesse, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.