My Name is
Dinah

Dinah
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: Dec 20, 2005
Sumaya
Sumaya's father died when she was a young child, and her mother started living with another man who was unwilling to care for her.
Phoebe
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
John
John has charm and charisma; he is a happy boy and has a quick smile in spite of his difficult start in life.
Paul
Paul was found abandoned as a small child and taken to the local police station.
Baraka
Baraka’s mother abandoned him at a young age, and his father is unknown.
Judith
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Joe
Joe was placed in the care of an uncle after his mother and father died in 2010.
Francisca
Francisca’s parents passed away before she turned two years old. Now she enjoys reading and helping others at the Rafiki Village.
Diane
Diane arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Deborah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
David
At eight months old, David was abandoned in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda.
Barakael
Barakael's mother died when he was one year old, and his father is 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...
Memory
Memory and her twin brother, Uchizi, had no family to care for them. Their mother died, and their father remains unknown.
Kenny
Kenny and his brother arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2014.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel and his sister, Mary, were born to a mentally-ill mother who lacked the mental and physical faculties to care for them, and their father...
James
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Babirye
Babirye and her three siblings were living in a situation that required immediate intervention according to Uganda social welfare.
Jackson
Jackson arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2013.
Patricia
Due to his own medical issues, Patricia's father could not provide for her basic needs after her mother's death.
Lemmy
Lemmy and his sister, Eva, were living with their grandmother, who did not have the means to feed them every day, before they came to Rafiki.
Naomi
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Dan
After both of Dan's parents died when he was a small child, he was placed in the care of an elderly and impoverished uncle.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.