My Name is
Serena
Serena
Serena’s mother died from malaria complications three months after giving birth to Serena and her twin sister, Rena. Her father also died in 2008 from an illness. Serena and her sister then lived with an impoverished aunt who struggled to provide for the twins and her own children. She appealed to the Rafiki Foundation for help. The girls arrived at the Rafiki Village Liberia in 2010. Since coming to the Rafiki Village, Serena has learned about God and been baptized! Her favorite Bible verse is Romans 8:31 because it reminds her that God is on her side.
DOB: May 18, 2006
Patience
Patience’s mother died a month after she was born. Her father was killed a year later in a farming accident.
Esau
Esau's mother died while delivering his younger brother, Isaac, and his father died the next year in a car accident.
Michael
After being abandoned by their mother, Kebah and her brother Michael were removed from their abusive caretaker.
Noah
Noah’s mother died a few days after giving birth to him. He was then placed in the care of his maternal grandmother.
Elikana
Elikana is a double orphan. She and her sister Mercy were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let alone...
Ruki
Ruki and her older sister were abandoned by their parents at a young age. The two girls were living on their own in a mud hut for many months.
Lonnie
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007, Lonnie was called “Lonely” because both of her parents were deceased.
Sharon
Sharon was found abandoned as a small child.
Leticia
Leticia's parents died of HIV in 2010. She and her brother were brought to live with their aunt, but she was unable to care for them.
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mwawi
Mwawi's mother died two weeks after delivering him and his twin brother.
Hellen
Helen was found lost and crying in the streets in 2003.
Mary
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Celestina
Celestina and her sister, Esther, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009.
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.
Adeline
Adeline and her mother were living with a family friend when her mother left one day and never returned.
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.
Kebah
After being abandoned by their mother, Kebah and her brother Michael were removed from their abusive caretaker.
Christopher
Christopher lost both of his parents between 2002 and 2003.
Smart
Smart’s mother died two weeks after his birth, and his father died soon after her.
Grace
Grace's father died in 2007 in a motor accident.
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...
Maria
Maria’s mother died giving birth to her, and her father died in a car accident in 2008.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.