My Name is
Blessing

Blessing
Blessing’s father died in a motor accident before she was born, and her mother died three weeks after her birth. She then lived with her aunt who had five children of her own for a time. Social services investigated and determined that she should be placed in the care of the Rafiki Village Nigeria. She arrived at the Village in 2010. Blessing is a good student who enjoys school. She is also very creative and loves singing and reading. She continues to pray to show God's love to others and to be an encouragement to those around her.
DOB: Sep 5, 2006
Boniface
Boniface is a double orphan. He and his twin brother, Leonard, lived with extended relatives for a time before arriving at Rafiki.
Innocent
Innocent is a double orphan. He and his sister were approved by Social Welfare to come to Rafiki in May 2008. They have rapidly transformed thanks...
Joshua
Joshua and his twin brother, Samuel, arrived at Rafiki Village Liberia in July 2013.
Erica
Erica and her sister, Priscilla, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Lois
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aquila
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rebecca
Rebecca's mother abandoned her shortly after giving birth to her.
Belis
Belis' mother is deceased and her father is in prison.
Isaac
Isaac's mother died while delivering him, and his father died the following year in a car accident.
Samson
Both of Samson's parents died when he was a young child.
Anjela
After being abandoned by her mother, Anjela lived with her elderly grandfather in a small mud hut.
Eltonia
Eltonia and her younger brother, Kwaku, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Mavis
Mavis was orphaned when both of her parents died of illnesses.
Philip
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ethel
Both Ethel's parents died within two years of each other.
Godiya
Godiya’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was a year old.
Titus
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...
Surafel
Surafel and his sister, Fortuna, where left in the care of an uncle after their mother and father died.
Aynalem
Aynalem was three years old when her mother died. Her father remains unknown.
Blessing
Blessing and her twin brother Dalitso, had moved four times since their mother died when they were babies. They lived at two babies’ homes and then...
Kilonzi
Kilonzi arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya with his older brother Mumo in 2006.
Sumaya
Sumaya's father died when she was a young child, and her mother started living with another man who was unwilling to care for her.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.