My Name is
Catherine
Catherine
Both Catherine's mother and father are deceased. Her grandmother abandoned her, and she arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya in 2006. Catherine enjoys learning, especially in Kiswahili. She works hard and does well in school. She is polite, teachable, and humble. She has learned from the Rafiki Bible Study that she should not repay evil for evil but always seek to do good to everyone, pray without ceasing, and give thanks in all circumstances. She continues to rely on God in both life's joys and difficulties.
DOB: Aug 10, 2001
Tendo
Tendo and her two sisters, Christina and Peace, were orphaned as small children and then lived with their grandmother for a time.
Nancy
Nancy’s father died in war and her mother died while delivering her younger sister, Patricia.
John
John’s parents were killed in a tragic bus accident. His mother was pregnant with his little sister, Chipo, at the time of the accident, and she...
Godwin
Godwin lived with his unemployed aunt and uncle before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2011.
Isaac
Isaac and his twin sister, Sandra, moved to their home at the Rafiki Village Ghana in March 2011.
Kirk
Kirk was found abandoned at the police lines in the city of Nairobi, Kenya.
Faith
Faith’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and her father died soon after in an accident.
Peter
Both Peter's mother and father died when he was an infant.
Thomas
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village Malawi, Thomas and sister, Gloria, lived with their impoverished grandmother and the six other children she...
Vincent
Vincent and his brother, Rabson, lived with their grandmother after their parents died in 2011.
Memory
Memory was found in the care of a 65-year-old widow who lived in a village subsidized by the government for the homeless.
Furahini
Furahini and her sister, Scolastika, lived with their grandmother after their mother disappeared.
Victoria
Vicky was abandoned when she was just one week old.
Irene
After both her mother and father abandoned her, Irene lived with her grandmother for a time.
Meklit
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village Ethiopia, Meklit's grandmother cared for her.
Monicah
Monicah's mother is believed to be dead, and her father is unknown.
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Beniyam
Beniyam was born in Mojo. His mother died when he was three years old, and his father abandoned him, giving him to his maternal grandparents.
Victoria
Vicky was abandoned by both her parents at birth and brought to the state-run orphanage in Jos, Nigeria. Vicky was severely malnourished and in...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth’s father died in 2005, and her mother died soon after in 2007.
Alice
Both Alice's mother and father died in 2005, and her grandparents were also deceased.
Kelvin
Kelvin and his sister had been in the care of their grandparents since the death of their mother and father. The grandparents found it difficult to...
Aynalem
Aynalem was three years old when her mother died. Her father remains unknown.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.