My Name is
Josephine
Josephine
Josephine and her sister Tendo were living in a local hospital in Kampala for some time. They were then placed in a temporary home for abandoned children by a child rights organization. After an investigation, social welfare determined that the girls had been abandoned by their mother. They arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2006. Josephine knows that her attitudes and actions matter to God and to those around her. She is careful to encourage others and not tear them down by her words.
DOB: Feb 14, 2003
Pererat
Pererat’s mother died soon after he was born, and his father disappeared after the Jos riots in 2008.
Esau
Esau's mother died while delivering his younger brother, Isaac, and his father died the next year in a car accident.
Linda
Linda's parents died in 2004. She was living with relatives for a time, but they found they could not provide for her and her brother, Caleb.
Ezekiel
Both Ezekiel's parents died within two years of each other, and Ezekiel was left to be raised by his grandmother.
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.
Abigail
Abigail was abandoned in the annex of a Nairobi hospital grounds.
Kiziya
Kiziya’s father died in 2006 after a brief illness, and her mother died while giving birth to her younger brother, Isaac.
Nikolas
After both Nikolas's parents died when he was a young child, his ailing grandmother referred him to the Rafiki Foundation. He arrived at the Rafiki...
Robel
Robel and his sister, Etsub, lived with their mother until she became terminally ill with liver disease.
Austin
Austin’s father died in an accident when he was cutting down a tree, and his mother died in November, 2009 from malaria.
John
John’s father died a few years before his mother passed away in 2007.
Nixon
The father of Nixon died early in his life and his mother had a fatal illness. She and the extended family felt it best to give Nixon a new start...
Faith
Faith’s mother passed away as a result of severe pneumonia.
Aquila
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Tabitha
Tabitha was left in the care of her elderly grandparents after her mother died.
Sandra
Sandra lived in her uncle's care after her parent's death.
Grace
Grace’s teenage mother gave birth to her and then left the hospital the next morning, abandoning her infant.
Abenezer
Abenezer was just fifteen days old when his teenage mother gave him over to his grandmother.
Catherine
Catherine’s mother died in 2005, and her father committed suicide in 2008.
Paul
Paul was found abandoned as a small child and taken to the local police station.
Brino
Brino and his brother arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2014.
Denis
After the death of their father, Denis and his brother, Charles, went to live with their impoverished aunt in a small room, one-room house.
Mary
After the death of her parents, Mary and her sisters lived with their aunt.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.