My Name is
Aquila
Aquila
Aquila and his sister Priscilla literally lost their father in Jan 2000, when he went missing after riots broke out near their village. Considered orphans when their mother died in 2001, they lived with their uncle, Pastor Samson Nwan. Aquila came to the Rafiki Village Nigeria in January, 2004. After finishing all of his primary and secondary schooling in Rafiki, he is now pursuing a degree in social studies education at the University of Jos.
Isaiah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ariet
Ariet and her little brother Frankson were orphaned when their mother died in 2009.
Adam
Adam arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Vincent
Vincent’s parents passed away by the time he was four years old.
Priscilla
Priscilla and her sister, Erica, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Alice
Alice’s parents both died by 2005 and she was left in the care of her eighteen-year-old brother.
Sara
Sara's mother abandoned her when she was an infant, and her father remains unknown.
Miriam
Miriam was found at a local market in the Machakos district of Kenya.
Rachel
Rachel’s mother died shortly after giving birth to her, and her father remains unknown. Rachel was referred to the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2006...
Dereck
Dereck and his twin sister were brought to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2006.
Lydia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Innocent
Innocent’s mother died in 2005, and his father abandoned him, leaving him in the care of an uncle who also abandoned him as a child.
Rebecca
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Kalkidan
Kalkidan was abandoned at a very young age, so his elderly grandparents cared for him.
Janvier
Janvier arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Hana
Hana’s mother died in 2008, and her father remains unknown.
Elizabeth
After Elizabeth’s mother died in July of 2005, her children came to live with their maternal aunt who worked as a mother’s assistant at the Rafiki...
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mara
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rena
Rena’s mother died from malaria complications three months after giving birth to Rena and her twin sister, Serena.
Jimmy
Jimmy and his twin sister Jane were brought to a local police station after their mother died in the Kenyatta National hospital.
Yamikani
Yamikani lost her father in 2004, and her mother was also dying of an illness at this time.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.