My Name is
Blessing

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 spent time with an uncle and then their grandmother. Social welfare conducted a home visit and found them to be very malnourished. They sought a permanent solution with the Rafiki Foundation. They arrived to their new permanent home in April 2013. Blessing is now in the 4th grade. Blessing believes Jesus is the Son of God who died for us on the cross. She knows the Bible is God's holy Word. Blessing reads her Bible on her own and prays alone to God. She asks God to destroy all the power of the devil. God answered Blessing's prayer that school would re-open after being closed because of a cholera outbreak. A new hymn Blessing has learned is "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name."
DOB: Mar 16, 2009
Jamila
Jamila's mother gave her over to the care of her aunt.
Harriet
Harriet's father passed away from AIDs, and her mother was also diagnosed HIV+ and was no longer able to care for her.
Nahom
Nahom’s mother died when he was just nine months old, and his father died when he was twenty months old.
Clementine
Clementine arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Olivia
Olivia and her twin sister, Gloria, were placed in the care of their uncle after their father died.
Mehiret
Before coming to Rafiki, Mehiret lived with her maternal grandmother.
Amos
Amos was abandoned in Kitui near the police station when he was only two years old.
Samson
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Abel
After Abel's mother was killed in a car accident, an elderly neighbor brought Abel into her home.
Christine
Christine was found abandoned and was admitted to a babies' home in September 2004.
Frank
Frank arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Julius
Julius’s mother abandoned him after his father died. He came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in March 2008.
Namukolo
Namukolo and his brother, Clifford, lived with his parents in a small rural village before their mother died in 2010. The father abandoned them and...
Chawanangwa
Both Chawanangwa’s parents are deceased.
Samson
Both of Samson's parents died when he was a young child.
Francisca
Francisca’s mother died after a short illness when Francisca was one year old. Her father died six months later.
Grace
Grace’s teenage mother gave birth to her and then left the hospital the next morning, abandoning Grace.
Chloe
When she was a child, the police found Chloe alone in a house.
Memory
Memory’s mother died four days after her birth.
Caroline
Caroline's parents died within one year of each other before she turned three years old.
Paul
Paul had no one to care for him after the death of his father in 2006.
Florence
Florence arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Rabecca
Rabecca is a double orphan. She lived with her aunt and grandmother after the death of her parents.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.