My Name is
Alexander
Alexander
Both Alex's parents are deceased. He came to live in the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2003. He soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and family environment at the Village. Alex is a good student who likes school. He does well in computer, history, and civics classes. Alexander intentionally pursues the Word of God and seeks to reflect Christ. He prays to become a man after God's own heart.
DOB: Jul 11, 1998
Boaz
Boaz's mother lacked the mental and physical faculties to adequately care for him. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2008.
Uchizi
Uchizi and his twin sister had no family to care for them. Their mother died, and their father remains unknown
Mary
Mary was referred to the Rafiki Village Kenya by an orphanage about four hours away. She came to Rafiki in October 2004.
Nancy
Nancy’s father died in war and her mother died while delivering her younger sister, Patricia.
Beatrice
Beatrice’s mother was mentally ill and living on the streets.
Tapiwa
Tapiwa and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Yeabsira
Not much is known about Yeabsira’s life before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Ethiopia.
Haggart
After both Haggart's parents died, he arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Moses
Moses was only a year old when both of his parents died of an illness.
Selah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Frankson
Frankson and his older sister, Ariet, were orphaned when their mother died in 2009.
Timothy
Timothy’s father died in 2002 of whooping cough, and his mother died several months later after a brief period of illness.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s mother died when he was eighteen months old, and his father is unknown.
Livingstone
After the death of both his parents, Livingstone lived with his grandfather.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel was seriously malnourished when he and his sister Phiona arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2005.
Yeabsira
Yeabisira's mother left him with her brother when he was just one year old, and his father remains unknown.
Peter
Both Peter's mother and father died when he was an infant.
Benon
Benon was born to a fifteen-year-old mother who died in child birth. His grandfather was old and unable to care for him. He was brought to an...
Esau
Esau's mother died while delivering his younger brother, Isaac, and his father died the next year in a car accident.
Paulina
Paulina’s father died before she was born, and her mother died in 2003.
Abraham
Abraham's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother, Wesen, eighteen months later.
Lazarus
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Darris
Darris's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.