My Name is
Damaris

Damaris
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: Aug 17, 2012
Claire
Claire arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Boniface
Boniface is a double orphan. He and his twin brother, Leonard, lived with extended relatives for a time before arriving at Rafiki.
Harriet
Harriet's father passed away from AIDs, and her mother was also diagnosed HIV+ and was no longer able to care for her.
Frank
Frank arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Maurin
After the death of Maurin's parents, she and her younger brother, Kelvin, went to live with their grandparents.
Bethel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Kwaku
Kwaku’s mother died nine days after giving birth to him and his twin sister.
Adam
Little is know about Adam's family and his parents whereabouts.
Isaiah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Dorcas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Zerubabel
After Zerubabel's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Rose
Rose was brought to a children's home in Moshi, Tanzania in 2008 by a pastor from a local church after she was abandoned by her mother.
Mitchiel
Mitchiel was brought to the Nairobi Children’s Home in May 2001 by the local police after her mentally ill mother was placed in a psychiatric...
Priscilla
Priscilla's father went missing after riots broke out near their village when she was a child.
Austin
In December of 2008 Austin went to live with an aunt in Monrovia after his parents died.
Robert
Robert’s father admitted him to the hospital due to malnutrition in 2001.
Mathew
Tabitha
Both of Tabitha’s parents died before she was four years old, leaving her and her four older brothers and sisters as orphans.
Mercy
Mercy was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a local ministry.
Aaron
Aaron lived with his grandmother before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Zambia
Margaret
After Margaret's parents died, she lived with her impoverished grandmother who had little means to provide for her and her sister, Grace.
Nancy
Nancy’s mother died, and her father is unknown.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.