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Brenda
Brenda
Brenda's mother is deceased and her father is in prison. She and her twin sister Belis have an uncle who was unable to properly care for them. The girls were referred to the Rafiki Village Kenya and arrived together in 2006. Brenda is industrious, committed, and shows interest in physical education. She especially enjoys volleyball, soccer, and shot-put. She has also developed an increased interest in language arts, especially literature and grammar. She has learned from the Rafiki Bible Study that she must be at peace with others, encourage the fainthearted, and be patient with everyone.
DOB: Nov 12, 2002
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...
Natnael
After his mother died, Natnael went to live with his grandmother.
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...
Mwawi
Mwawi's mother died two weeks after delivering him and his twin brother.
Ruki
Ruki and her older sister were abandoned by their parents at a young age. The two girls were living on their own in a mud hut for many months.
Joseph
Joseph was abandoned by both of his parents at birth and was being cared for by a state-run orphanage just outside of Jos, Nigeria. At age three,...
Mapalo
Mapalo’s grandmother was caring for ten of her grandchildren as well as four of her own children.
Alex
Both of Alex's parents died of terminal illnesses between 2003 and 2004. He was then referred by Social Welfare to begin living in the Rafiki...
Joseph
Both of Joseph’s parents are deceased. He and his sister Abigail came to Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Kwame
Kwame, along with his brother and sister, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Esther
Esther and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Isaac
Isaac's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Paul, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The boys' mother passed...
Ariet
Ariet and her little brother Frankson were orphaned when their mother died in 2009.
Claude
Claude’s father died before he was born, and his mother died in the hospital giving birth to him.
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Faustin
After Faustin’s mother died, a woman in the community offered to take him.
Augustine
Augustine, his twin brother Augustus, and older brother Gideon, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Frank
Frank’s father was killed in a car accident, and his mother died of an illness when he was a young child.
Vivian
Vivian’s mother was mentally ill, and her father was unknown.
Eric
After his mother died, Eric and his older brother, Eliya, were placed in the care of their aunt.
Lorine
Lorine was referred to the Rafiki Village Kenya by The Nairobi Children's Home, the orphanage her aunt placed her in as a young child, and she...
Clifford
Clifford and his brother, Namukolo, were living with their parents in the Kanakantappa Village when their mother died in 2010.
Joshua
Joshua was abandoned by his sixteen-year-old mother.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.