My Name is
Ben

Ben
Before arriving at the Rafiki village, Ben and his five siblings lived with their grandmother, along with her six children, in a one-room house. Ben eventually ran away and was found by the police and taken to a children's home. Ben arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya in 2014. On his first night at the Village, his new brothers made his bed and left a stuffed animal on his pillow to welcome him. Now, Ben shows interest in every academic subject, but he especially enjoys studying the human body in science. He does well in music, spelling, and sports. Ben continues to pray that he will know God more and will grow in wisdom and knowledge.
DOB: Dec 10, 2008
Salome
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth's mother died shortly after giving birth to her, and her father disappeared after her mother's death.
Silas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mercy
Mercy was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a local ministry in Kampala, Uganda. Her parents died in 2008, and she was put in the care of an...
Gertrude
Gertrude (Trudy) was orphaned after her father and mother died within a year of each other.
Micah
Micah was just nine months old when both of his parents were killed by armed robbers.
Joshua
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Dereck
Dereck and his twin sister were brought to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2006.
Beauregard
Beauregard’s mother died soon after giving birth to him in November, 2006.
Hope
Hope and her half sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Betty
Both of Betty’s parents died when she was young. Her mother contracted cerebral malaria, and her father died in a car accident.
Eve
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Witness
Witness lived most of her early life in an orphanage.
Kefas
Kafes’s father died a few months before he was born, and his mother died when he was two years old.
Mwawi
Mwawi's mother died two weeks after delivering him and his twin brother.
Neema
After the death of her mother and father, Neema lived with her elderly grandmother and adult sister.
Joseph
Joseph is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2007.
Comfort
Comfort arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Benjamin
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Olivier
Olivier arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Theresa
Theresa’s mother died within days after giving birth to her and her twin sister, Josephine.
Rocklin
Rocklin arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Simon
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.