My Name is
Ruth
Ruth
Both of Ruth's parents are deceased. She and her brother Christopher lived with their grandmother before she sought help from social welfare services to care for the children. Ruth and Christopher arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2006. Ruth now excels in class discussion, class work, and language arts. She has come to know more about Jesus by reading the Bible, and she trusts Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior. Ruth understands that God has a specific plan and purpose for His people.
DOB: May 27, 2003
Julie
Following the death of their parents, Julie and her two sisters were placed in the care of an aunt.
Lusia
After Lusia's mother died, she lived with her aunt.
Emmanuel
When Emmanuel was a young child, he was carried on his mother’s back as she wandered the city of Accra.
Candace
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Dagim
Dagim's mother died shortly after his birth.
Micheal
When he was two months old, Michael was abandoned at a shop in Kampala, Uganda. Michael then came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in February of 2005.
Francis
Francis and his sister, Pamela, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Diana
Diana and her twin brother were brought to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2006.
Josiah
Josiah's parents were killed in tribal clashes in 2002.
Pamela
Pamela and her brother, Francis, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Isaac
Isaac's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Paul, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The boys' mother passed...
Israel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Catherine
Catherine was abandoned immediately after she was born.
Blessing
Blessing was abandoned by her mother, and her father remains unknown.
Adella
After the death of her parents, Adella lived with her single aunt.
Prince
Prince and his two brothers were abandoned by their mother while they were still young children.
Theresa
Theresa was abandoned at seven months old by her mother at a shop in downtown Monrovia, Liberia.
Ethan
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rachel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Comfort
Comfort arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Clinton
After the death of their parents, Clinton and his sister Mary arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2009.
Gad
Gad arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2012.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.