My Name is
Selah
Selah
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: Nov 25, 2001
Dalitso
Dalitso and his twin sister moved four times as babies after their mother died.
Hannah
Hannah’s mother abandoned her shortly after she was born.
Francine
Francine arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Rahab
Rahab’s mother was unable to care for her and her father remains unknown.
Joshua
Joshua was abandoned by his sixteen-year-old mother.
Benjamin
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Elijah
Elijah was referred to Rafiki by an orphanage four hours away from the Village.
Molly
Molly was abandoned when she was eight months old and brought to a local police station in 2003.
Vincent
Vincent’s parents passed away by the time he was four years old.
Diana
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Anna
Anna arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2006, a year after both her parents died.
Susan
Susan's mother is deceased and her father is in jail.
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Stanley
Both of Stanley's parents contracted a fatal illness and died when he was a young child.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel’s mother died in 2005, and his father died in 2006.
John
John arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 after both of his parents died.
Yamikani
Yamikani lost her father in 2004, and her mother was also dying of an illness at this time.
Peter
Both of Peter’s parents were killed during religious riots that occurred in 2004 in a village about two hours away from Jos, Nigeria.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel and his sister, Mary, were born to a mentally-ill mother who lacked the mental and physical faculties to care for them, and their father...
Emmanuel
Emmanuel (Kobby) and his two brothers were abandoned by their mother while they were still young children.
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gracious
Gracious’s mother died of stomach cancer shortly after giving birth to her.
Mara
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.