My Name is
Sam
Sam
Sam arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2011 and soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving family environment. He now attends the Rafiki School as a day student. Sam’s favorite day of each week is Sunday when he attends church and worships God with the congregation. After finishing his schooling, Sam hopes to become a technician. He plans to use this position to share the gospel with those he encounters. As Sam strives to imitate Christ each day, he prays that he will be a light in the world and a blessing to those he meets.
DOB: Jan 1, 2007
Benjamin
Benjamin faced a childhood trauma when his mother was killed in the Liberian Civil War.
Diana
Diana and her twin brother were brought to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2006.
Philemon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
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.
Cilicia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
John
John’s parents were killed in a tragic bus accident. His mother was pregnant with his little sister, Chipo, at the time of the accident, and she...
Joseph
Joseph’s mother died when he was nine months old, and his father is unknown.
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gideon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Charity
Both of Charity's parents were killed during riots in Jos, Nigeria.
Emmanuel
When Emmanuel was a young child, he was carried on his mother’s back as she wandered the city of Accra.
Frank
Both Frank's parents died shortly after his birth.
Faith
Faith’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and her father died soon after in an accident.
Silas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Boaz
Boaz's mother lacked the mental and physical faculties to adequately care for him. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2008.
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Ben
Before arriving at the Rafiki village, Ben and his five siblings lived with their grandmother, along with her six children, in a one-room house.
Theresia
Theresia and her twin sister, Aurelia, came to live at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2010 after their mother died of cancer.
Sumaya
Sumaya's father died when she was a young child, and her mother started living with another man who was unwilling to care for her.
Philip
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Lemmy
Lemmy and his sister, Eva, were living with their grandmother, who did not have the means to feed them every day, before they came to Rafiki.
Praise
Praise's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father abandoned him.
Jack
Jack is a double orphan who was living with his impoverished grandmother.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.