My Name is
Mara
Mara
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or subsidies. They receive an excellent classical Christian education, daily Bible study, two nutritious meals per day, and basic school supplies. For a child in Africa, attending school means more than ABCs or 123s; it means a hope for a future – spiritually and materially. Your support makes that hope possible for these day students, their families, and their communities. We have given each day student an alias for the privacy and protection of the child and his/her family. If you sponsor a day student, you will receive some additional information about the child and will communicate with the child using the assigned alias.
DOB: Oct 12, 2012
Enoch
Enoch’s mother worked at Rafiki. Her last request before her death was her hope that Enoch could come to live at Rafiki Village Nigeria.
Mai
At age four, Mai was taken by a caretaker to Monrovia, Liberia to begin school.
Francisca
Francisca’s mother died after a short illness when Francisca was one year old. Her father died six months later.
Bernice
Bernice was in the care of her paternal uncle before arriving at the Rafiki Village Nigeria.
Sharon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Cilicia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
James
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Karen
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Harriet
Harriet's father passed away from AIDs, and her mother was also diagnosed HIV+ and was no longer able to care for her.
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...
Bernice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Susan
Susan's mother is deceased and her father is in jail.
Elizabeth
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Augustine
Augustine, his twin brother Augustus, and older brother Gideon, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Sarah
Sarah's father is deceased, and her mother gave her and her siblings to her great grandmother.
Kiziya
Kiziya’s father died in 2006 after a brief illness, and her mother died while giving birth to her younger brother, Isaac.
Obadiah
Obadiah was found abandoned as a small child in 2006 in Paynesville, Liberia.
Lilian
Lilian was born a twin but was separated from her brother at birth.
Grace
Grace and her brother, Martin, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2005.
Rachael
Rachael and her sister Mary arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in August 2010.
John
John has charm and charisma; he is a happy boy and has a quick smile in spite of his difficult start in life.
Moris
Moris was put in the care of an uncle after his mother died, and his father remains unknown.
Catherine
Catherine’s mother died in 2005, and her father committed suicide in 2008.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.