My Name is
Mary
Mary
Mary and her brother, Emmanuel, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2002. Mary is kind, generous, and helpful. She enjoys sewing and making crafts. Mary also enjoys the Rafiki Bible Study at school and family devotions in the morning and evening. She likes the lyrics of the hymn "How Firm a Foundation."
DOB: Jun 13, 1997
Naomi
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Samuel
Samuel was like many children when they first arrive at Rafiki. He arrived with no shoes, and he looked very malnourished.
Godiya
Godiya’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was a year old.
Jamesetta
Jamesetta, her sister, Amelia, and her brother, Jimmy, arrived at the Rafiki Village in 2012.
Erick
Erick’s mother died a few hours after he was born due to complications with his delivery.
Watson
Watson arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 with his older brother Benjamin.
Neema
After the death of her mother and father, Neema lived with her elderly grandmother and adult sister.
Vivian
Vivian’s mother was mentally ill, and her father was unknown.
Isaac
Isaac was abandoned by his grandmother who could not care for him as a small child.
Furaha
Furaha and her two cousins were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their fathers.
Catherine
Both Catherine's mother and father are deceased.
Aneth
After the death of her parents, Aneth lived with her single aunt.
Faustin
After Faustin’s mother died, a woman in the community offered to take him.
Gloria
Gloria and her twin sister Olivia were abandoned and given to a paternal uncle when their father died.
Kwaku
Kwaku’s mother died nine days after giving birth to him and his twin sister.
Nancy
Nancy’s father died in war and her mother died while delivering her younger sister, Patricia.
Kwasi
Kwasi and his twin sister, Akosua, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2009.
Nehemiah
Both Nehemiah’s mother and father are deceased.
Jummai
Both Jummai's parents died within two years of each other, and Jummai and her brother Ezekiel were left to be raised by her grandmother.
Moses
The death of Moses's father left six orphans.
Joseph
Very little is known about Joseph's early years, except that his mother died and his father abandoned him.
Michael
Michael’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and his father died after an accident.
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.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.