My Name is
Atsu
Atsu
Atsu arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009. Atsu loves to play soccer, and he dreams of playing professionally for Ghana. He knows Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. From the Rafiki Bible Study, he has learned that Christians are to live lives that are pleasing to God by reading His Word and living according to it.
DOB: Oct 24, 2006
Faith
Faith’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and her father died soon after in an accident.
Samson
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Obadiah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
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.
Salome
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Monicah
Monicah's mother is believed to be dead, and her father is unknown.
Frank
After the death of his parents, Frank's grandmother took care of him and his brother, James.
Innocent
Innocent was abandoned as a young child and was then referred to a babies' home.
Jacob
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Fiskani
Fiskani’s mother is deceased and his father abandoned him.
Jennifer
Jennifer is one of three triplets. She and her sisters, Janet and Joanna, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Tabitha
Tabitha was left in the care of her elderly grandparents after her mother died.
Claudia
After Claudia's parents died, she was placed in the care of her elderly grandmother.
Tapiwa
When Tapiwa and her three sisters lost their parents in 2010, they were placed in the care of their widowed grandmother.
Benjamin
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Israel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
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...
Emily
Before Emily arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007, she was in the care of an aunt and uncle who did not have the means to properly feed her.
Damaris
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ben
Ben’s mother died in November 2006, and his father sometime before that.
Ellen
Ellen arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in November of 2010.
Beatrice
Beatrice’s parents died of a terminal illness shortly after she was born, and she was put in the care of her grandmother.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.