My Name is
Alice
Alice
Alice arrived at Rafiki Village Rwanda in November 2009. She soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving family environment. Alice is an excellent student and highly motivated to do her best work. Alice has learned that she needs to pray to God when she is uncertain about the future. She has to trust that God has a good plan for her, and this gives her hope and courage. She gives God praise for the answers to prayer she has seen. Alice is a boarding student at the Rafiki Village Rwanda.
DOB: Jan 27, 2006
Winston
Both of Winston’s parents are deceased.
Nicole
Nicole's mother abandoned her and her father remains unknown.
Sindani
Sindani and her two older sisters were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their parents.
Abiba
Abiba Ruth's father abandoned her, and her mother is terminally ill.
Jeremiah
After the death of his parents, Jeremiah lived with a family member. Though she tried, this family member could not provide for Jeremiah's basic...
Leonard
Leonard is a double orphan. He and his twin brother, Boniface, lived with extended relatives for a time before arriving at Rafiki.
Afia
Afia arrived at Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009.
David
At eight months old, David was abandoned in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda.
Benjamin
Benjamin faced a childhood trauma when his mother was killed in the Liberian Civil War.
Ruth
Both of Ruth's parents are deceased. She and her brother Christopher lived with their grandmother before she sought help from social welfare...
Isaac
Isaac and his twin sister, Sandra, moved to their home at the Rafiki Village Ghana in March 2011.
Anna
Anna was left on a porch in Monrovia, Liberia when she was eighteen months old.
Stanley
Both of Stanley's parents contracted a fatal illness and died when he was a young child.
Silas
Silas arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
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...
Clinton
After the death of their parents, Clinton and his sister Mary arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2009.
Blessing
Blessing and her twin brother Dalitso, had moved four times since their mother died when they were babies. They lived at two babies’ homes and then...
Emmanuel
When Emmanuel was a young child, he was carried on his mother’s back as she wandered the city of Accra.
Reuben
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Racheal
Racheal's birth mother has never been located. Her father took another wife, abandoned Racheal, and never returned. She arrived at the Rafiki...
Aquila
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Leul
After Leul's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
James
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.