My Name is
Odel
Odel
Odel was in the care of an aunt after her parents abandoned her. Though she tried, her aunt struggled to care for Odel and asked the Rafiki Foundation for help. Odel arrived at the Rafiki Village Liberia in 2010. She soon began to blossom under the loving care of her Rafiki Mother. Odel enjoys studying mathematics because she likes to learn about numbers and to solve problems. She hopes to be a teacher when she grows up. She loves Jesus because He loved her first and died for her sins.
DOB: May 14, 2008
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Jummai
Both Jummai's parents died within two years of each other, and Jummai and her brother Ezekiel were left to be raised by her grandmother.
Chloe
Chloe is a double orphan; both of her parents died when she was around three years old.
Seth
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.
Tabitha
Tabitha was left in the care of her elderly grandparents after her mother died.
Israel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ringabell
Ringabell’s mother died from poisoning and her father died of typhoid fever.
Mathias
Mathias’s mother died a year after his father died and Mathias and his brother were given to an uncle for care.
Rose
Both of Roses's parents are deceased.
Esther
Esther and her sister, Celestina, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Ben
Before arriving at the Rafiki village, Ben and his five siblings lived with their grandmother, along with her six children, in a one-room house.
Ethan
Ethan’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father died in 2002.
Aidah
Aida was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by the Katherine Hines Ministries, a local orphanage in Kampala.
Shadreck
After the death of his parents, Shadreck was in the care of an impoverished widow could not properly feed him.
Ruth
Ruth was placed in the care of her elderly grandparents after her own parents died.
Lydia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Jane
Both Jane's parents died when she was a young child, making her a double orphan.
Gabriela
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Tapiwa
When Tapiwa and her three sisters lost their parents in 2010, they were placed in the care of their widowed grandmother.
Joshua
Joshua's parents were killed in 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and the families living there. Joshua, his twin brother Gideon, and...
Winnie
Winnie's young mother died while giving birth to her, and her father died after being hit by a car.
Esau
Esau's mother died while delivering his younger brother, Isaac, and his father died the next year in a car accident.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.