My Name is
Candace

Candace
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or subsidies. They receive an excellent classical Christian education, daily Bible study, two nutritious meals per day, and basic school supplies. For a child in Africa, attending school means more than ABCs or 123s; it means a hope for a future – spiritually and materially. Your support makes that hope possible for these day students, their families, and their communities. We have given each day student an alias for the privacy and protection of the child and his/her family. If you sponsor a day student, you will receive some additional information about the child and will communicate with the child using the assigned alias.
DOB: Nov 11, 2003
Ester
Ester was in the care of her impoverished grandmother after her parents died of a fatal illness.
Gertrude
Gertrude (Trudy) was orphaned after her father and mother died within a year of each other.
Brian
Brian’s mother died at childbirth, and his father remains unknown. Brian was then placed in an orphanage about four hours from the Rafiki Village...
Enid
Enid arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Bethlehem
Bethlehem's (Betty's) mother abandoned her to go find work and left her with a neighbor.
Moris
Moris was put in the care of an uncle after his mother died, and his father remains unknown.
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...
Adella
After the death of her parents, Adella lived with her single aunt.
Abel
Abel's mother died when he was one year old, and his father remains unknown.
Furahini
Furahini and her sister, Scolastika, lived with their grandmother after their mother disappeared.
James
James's parents died within months of each other; he was an orphan before he was six months old.
Chloe
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Zelalem
Zelalem and her twin brother, Malesse, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Paul
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Khumbo
Khumbo's mother died in 2007 when he was two years old, and his father’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Diana
Diana arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Saul
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Fred
Fred and his two brothers Champ and George were placed in the care of an elderly woman because their mother, who had physical disabilities, could...
Martha
Martha's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Mapalo
Mapalo’s is a double orphan; her mother died in 2006, and her father died in 2008.
Adam
Adam arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Mary
Mary and her brother, Emmanuel, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2002.
Abraham
Abraham's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother, Wesen, eighteen months later.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.