My Name is
Ruth
Ruth
Both of Ruth's parents are deceased. She and her brother Christopher lived with their grandmother before she sought help from social welfare services to care for the children. Ruth and Christopher arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2006. Ruth now excels in class discussion, class work, and language arts. She has come to know more about Jesus by reading the Bible, and she trusts Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior. Ruth understands that God has a specific plan and purpose for His people.
DOB: May 27, 2003
Judith
Judith's parents were killed in tribal clashes in 2002. She and her brother Josiah came to the Village in 2004.
Samuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Kwaku
Kwaku and his older sister, Eltonia, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009.
Leah
Leah was abandoned as a baby, and her parents remain unknown.
William
William was brought to a hospital with head injuries in August 2003.
Mphatso
Mphatso's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father remains unknown.
Anne
Anne’s mother is physically handicapped and unable to care for her.
Rose
Both of Roses's parents are deceased.
Denise
When Denise was one month old, she was abandoned at the Kenyatta National hospital.
Aquila
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Nancy
Nancy’s mother died, and her father is unknown.
Shadreck
Shadreck’s mother died in 2005, and his father died in 2006.
Mary
After the death of her parents, Mary and her brother, Clinton, were placed in the care of their grandparents.
Lonnie
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007, Lonnie was called “Lonely” because both of her parents were deceased.
Cossam
Cossam arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 following the death of both of his parents.
Isaac
Isaac's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Paul, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The boys' mother passed...
Emmanuel
Emmanuel was abandoned at a hospital in Rwanda when he was twelve months old, had malaria, and weighed only eleven pounds. The police have searched...
Augustus
Augustus, his twin brother Augustine, and his older brother Gideon arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Malesse
Malesse and his twin sister, Zalalem, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Sarah
Sarah was born prematurely in a private clinic in March 2005. Her mother disappeared soon after she took Sarah to the hospital, and her father...
Moses
Moses was only a year old when both of his parents died of an illness.
Catherine
Catherine’s mother died in 2005, and her father committed suicide in 2008.
Diane
Diane’s father was never known. When her mother died in 2006, Diane went to live with her aunt.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.