My Name is
Caleb
Caleb
Caleb’s parents died when he was four years old, and his relatives were unable to care for him because they are impoverished and relied on subsistence farming. Caleb was referred by social welfare to the Rafiki Village Nigeria and arrived in May 2006. Caleb enjoys school and excels in computer science and technical drawing. He would like to go into large-scale farming with big equipment someday. Caleb understands the importance of spending time with God. He is overwhelmed by God's goodness and power, and he wants to give God his best.
DOB: May 22, 2000
Ethan
Ethan’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father died in 2002.
Winston
Both of Winston’s parents are deceased.
Munyithya
Munyithya's father died four months after he was born, and his mother followed eighteen months later before his second birthday.
Kiziya
Kiziya’s father died in 2006 after a brief illness, and her mother died while giving birth to her younger brother, Isaac.
Bernice
Bernice was in the care of her paternal uncle before arriving at the Rafiki Village Nigeria.
Diane
Diane’s parents died of an illness. Before that, her family was living in a refugee camp in Tanzania.
Beauregard
Beauregard’s mother died soon after giving birth to him in November, 2006.
Odel
Odel was in the care of an aunt after her parents abandoned her.
Racheal
Racheal's birth mother has never been located. Her father took another wife, abandoned Racheal, and never returned. She arrived at the Rafiki...
Claude
Claude’s father died before he was born, and his mother died in the hospital giving birth to him.
Joseph
Joseph's mother was disabled, and they were internally displaced as a result of the 2007-post-presidential elections violence.
Emmanuel
When Emmanuel was a young child, he was carried on his mother’s back as she wandered the city of Accra.
Pererat
Pererat’s mother died soon after he was born, and his father disappeared after the Jos riots in 2008.
Haggart
After both Haggart's parents died, he arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Lonnie
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007, Lonnie was called “Lonely” because both of her parents were deceased.
Robert
Robert’s father admitted him to the hospital due to malnutrition in 2001.
Nancy
Nancy’s mother died, and her father is unknown.
Elikana
Elikana is a double orphan. She and her sister Mercy were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let alone...
Carol
Carol lived with her grandmother after her mother became mentally ill and incapable of caring for her, and her father abandoned the family when she...
Jacob
Jacob is a double orphan. He lived with his aunt for a time after his parents died.
John
Both of John’s parents died, leaving him with no one to care for him.
Lillian
Lillian lost both her parents to AIDS when she was a young child.
Gideon
Gideon's parents were killed in 2010 when mudslides buried their village and the families living there.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.