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Donatha
When Donatha was extremely young her mother and father both died of illness. Soon after Donatha was sent to live with her father’s first wife. Her step mother however already had too many children to care for an was unable to support another. So in 2004 she was welcomed into the Rafiki Village.
DOB: Sep 29, 2004
Aurelia
Aurelia and her twin sister Theresia came to live at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2010 after the death of their mother from cancer. Aurelia is an...
Christine
Christine was found alone and was admitted to a babies' home in September 2004. She arrived at Rafiki Village Uganda in April 2005. She now enjoys...
Veronica
Veronica and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism. After the death of their parents in...
Fortuna
Fortuna and her brother Surafel were left in their uncle's care when their mother and father died. Their uncle struggled to care for the children,...
Winnie
Winnie has lost her mother and never knew her father. After her mother died, she was sent to live with her uncle who could barely provide food for...
Adwoa Mary
Adwoa’s mother is mentally ill and living on the streets. The mother, due to her mental state, neglected the child completely. Social welfare...
Paulina
Paulina’s father died before she was born. Her mother in 2003. Neither her grandmother nor her uncle were able to care for her and therefore social...
Lillian
Lillian lost both her parents to AIDS. One parent died in 2003 and the other in 2004. She was placed in the care of her impoverished aunt but the...
Metsenanat
Metsenanat was abandoned and given to her grandmother. Her grandmother struggled to provide for her and asked the Rafiki Foundation to intervene....
Samuel
Samuel and his twin brother, Joshua, arrived at Rafiki Village Liberia in July 2013. Their mother had passed away after contracting malaria and the...
Tizeta
Tizeta's was abandoned by her mother, and her father is unknown. She lived with her grandparents before arriving at Rafiki in 2010. Her...
Abraham
When Abraham's mother died, he was sent to live with his aunt. She sold food from a small stand and struggled to provide for Abraham and her own...
Alick
Alick is a double orphan. He lived with his grandparents after the death of his mother in 2007. His grandparents were already caring for seven...
Enoch
Enoch’s mother worked at Rafiki. Her last request before her death was her hope that Enoch could come to live at Rafiki Village Nigeria. He made...
Joanna
Joanna is a triplet. Her birth siblings are all girls. Joanna’s mother died shortly after delivering the triplets. The father was without job and...
Augustus
Augustus, his twin brother and older brother were left as orphans when their mother died of typhoid fever in January 2010. Their father died in...
Gabriel
Gabriel's father abandoned the family and his mother did not recover from the C-section she had when he was born. Since that time he lived with...
Tiwonge
Tiwonge came to us from extremely vulnerable circumstances. Her mother suffers from extreme mental disabilities and her father abandoned them very...
Sara
Sara and her mother came to live with her grandmother when Sara was four months old. Not long after they had moved in, her mother disappeared and...
Jehu
Jehu’s mother died of yellow fever and his father was a policeman killed in the war. Since the death of their mother Jehu and his sister Miatta,...
Clifford
Clifford and his brother, Namukolo, were living with their parents in the Kanakantappa Village when their mother died in 2010. The father abandoned...
James
James was orphaned after his mother was involved in a fatal road accident in April 2005. His father is unknown. This left James under the care of...
Barnabas
Both of Barnabas’ parents were killed during the religious riots in 2004 in a village about two hours away from Jos, Nigeria. He was living with...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned near a police station. He was then brought to the AIC orphanage in Mogogosiek, an orphanage about four hours away from the...
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