My Name is
Ethan
Ethan
Ethan’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father died in 2002. A local pastor in the village began caring for Ethan. In 2004, the village where Ethan was living was involved in religious riots, and many of the adults were killed. Rafiki was contacted by a local relief group to consider taking some of the orphans from this village. Ethan, along with two other children from his village, was admitted to the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2004. Ethan is a good student who enjoys school. He desires to keep learning more and to help develop his country into a better place for the coming generation.
DOB: Sep 15, 2000
Ethan
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Michelle
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rhoda
Rhoda's mother died when she was a small child, and her father abandoned her.
Deborah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rebecca
Rebecca's mother abandoned her shortly after giving birth to her.
Neema
Neema's mother died while giving birth to her, and her father abandoned her.
Susan
Susan's mother is deceased and her father is in jail.
Abenezer
Abenezer was just fifteen days old when his teenage mother gave him over to his grandmother.
Claire
Claire arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Nellice
Nellice’s parents died within two years of each other, and she was an orphan before she was three years old.
Frank
After the death of his parents, Frank's grandmother took care of him and his brother, James.
Anna
Anna arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2006, a year after both her parents died.
Clifford
Clifford and his brother, Namukolo, were living with their parents in the Kanakantappa Village when their mother died in 2010.
Brenda
Brenda's mother is deceased and her father is in prison.
Rachel
Rachel was one of thirteen children living at a farm with her grandparents.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s father died in a mountain climbing accident shortly before Emanuel was born, and his mother died when he was five years old.
Saul
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Zerubabel
After Zerubabel's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Tracy
Both Tracy's (Tamar’s) parents died of illness in 2002.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel lived with his elderly grandmother after the death of his parents.
Furaha
Furaha and her two cousins were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their fathers.
Kebah
After being abandoned by their mother, Kebah and her brother Michael were removed from their abusive caretaker.
William
William was brought to a hospital with head injuries in August 2003.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.