My Name is
Caroline

Caroline
Caroline's parents died within one year of each other before she turned three years old. She arrived just in time for Christmas at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2006. Since then, she has proved to be an attentive girl who tries to do her very best in all things. Caroline knows that nothing can separate her from the love of God and that trials and challenges can be used by God to build her faith and trust.
DOB: May 5, 2002
Martha
Martha's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Abigail
Both of Abigail’s parents are deceased. Her father passed away the year she was born, and her mother died a year later.
Rabecca
Rabecca’s parents both died leaving her an orphan by the age of four.
Lusia
After Lusia's mother died, she lived with her aunt.
Odel
Odel was in the care of an aunt after her parents abandoned her.
Atsu
Atsu arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009. His favorite part of each school day is creative arts.
Mercy
Mercy is a double orphan. She and and her sister Elikana were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let...
Catherine
Catherine’s mother died in 2005, and her father committed suicide in 2008.
Theresa
Theresa was abandoned at seven months old by her mother at a shop in downtown Monrovia, Liberia.
Paula
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...
Paul
Paul had no one to care for him after the death of his father in 2006.
Gifty
Gifty is a kind, respectful, helpful, and intelligent young woman who works diligently to succeed in all her classes.
Irene
Irene and her sister were abandoned by their parents as young children. They lived on their own in a mud hut for many months.
Lilian
Lilian was born a twin but was separated from her brother at birth.
Julius
Julius’s mother abandoned him after his father died. He came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in March 2008.
Sharon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Champ
Champ's mother abandoned him, and his father remains unknown.
Witness
Witness lived most of her early life in an orphanage.
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Claire
Claire arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Negassa
Negassa's mother died in 2008, and his father abandoned him soon after her death.
Pierre
Pierre and his brother first arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2012.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.