My Name is
Claire
Claire
Claire arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010. She soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving environment at the Village. She now enjoys school and learning. Claire also enjoys studying the Bible in school and attending church each Sunday. During the National Commission for Children’s investigation in 2018, they were able to locate Claire’s grandmother and aunt. Claire is a boarding student at the Rafiki Village Rwanda.
DOB: Oct 16, 2005
Zachariah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron lived with his grandmother before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Zambia
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...
Samuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Jackson
Jackson arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2013.
Jonah
Jonah’s father died when he was just a year old, and his mother died soon after.
Deborah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Judith
Judith’s father died in 2008, and her mother died in 2009.
Janjay
Janjay’s mother died after giving birth to her, and her father died shortly after in a car accident.
Sibongile
Sibongile’s mother was impoverished and unable to care for her or her sister Siphwe.
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...
Israel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Catherine
Catherine’s mother died in 2005, and her father committed suicide in 2008.
Winnie
Winnie's young mother died while giving birth to her, and her father died after being hit by a car.
Ethan
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Polycarp
Polycarp was abandoned at the age of four and placed into a baby's home.
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney...
Abigail
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Eltonia
Eltonia and her younger brother, Kwaku, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Vincent
Vincent’s parents passed away by the time he was four years old.
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ethan
Ethan’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father died in 2002.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.