My Name is
Victoria

Victoria
Vicky was abandoned by both her parents at birth and brought to the state-run orphanage in Jos, Nigeria. She was severely malnourished and in need of emergency care. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in June of 2003. Within three months of her arrival, she gained weight, her coloring changed, and she could stand on her own. Vicky has learned about the beauty of forgiveness in the Scriptures and through God's people, and she is thankful for her life at Rafiki.
DOB: Jan 18, 2002
Jehu
Jehu's mother died of yellow fever and his father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Bernice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Emmanuel
Emmanuel (Kobby) and his two brothers were abandoned by their mother while they were still young children.
Theresa
Theresa’s mother died within days after giving birth to her and her twin sister, Josephine.
Moses
Moses and his twin sister were abandoned at a shopping center, found by strangers, and taken to a local district hospital.
Salome
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Zawady
Zawady is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2006.
Ethel
Both Ethel's parents died within two years of each other.
Timothy
Timothy was orphaned as an infant and brought to a babies' home in Kitui in 1997.
Stella
Stella was abandoned by her mother at Kakamega Provincial General Hospital.
James
James was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a social worker from a group in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.
Teeweh
Teeweh and his older sister Adele arrived at the Rafiki Village in 2012 after their mother died and their father gave them up.
Rahab
Rahab’s mother was unable to care for her and her father remains unknown.
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.
Jennifer
Jennifer's parents died in 2005.
Sibongile
Sibongile’s mother was impoverished and unable to care for her or her sister Siphwe.
Jonathan
Not much is known about Jonathan’s parents.
Kyle
Kyle was abandoned by his father shortly after he was born.
Joanna
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mwaka
Mwaka’s aunt cared for her after the death of her parents.
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney...
Faith
Faith’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and her father died soon after in an accident.
Korah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.