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Emelyne
Emelyne was brought to her elderly grandmother after both parents died. Her grandmother is taking care of two other children who are older. Her grandmother is elderly and struggles to care for the children and has asked for help from the Rafiki Foundation. Emelyne was placed at the Rafiki Village in Rwanda. She is healthy and happy in her new home.
DOB: Nov 22, 2006
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Kefas
Kafes’ father died a few months before he was born and his mother died when he was two years old. The people in the village were very impoverished...
Isaac
Isaac’s uncle has cared for him since the death of his mother in 2010, his father died four months before he was born. His uncle is a migrant...
Moses
Moses was referred to Rafiki by Katherine Hines Ministries. The report from social services states that both of his parents are deceased. Moses was...
Thomas
Both parents died from unknown causes and the people in the village were unable to provide sufficient care for him. Social welfare was concerned...
Winston
Both of Winston’s parents are dead. Winston came to live with his elderly grandmother in the Buchanan area. She is very poor and has struggled to...
Yaw
Yaw, his twin sister and his older sister were orphaned when both of their parents died of illnesses. Their uncle had no alternative but to add...
Thomas
Thomas’ grandmother was caring for six children, besides Thomas and his sister. She was very poor. Thomas was suffering from an ear infection,...
Joy
Joy had been living with her grandmother since both of her parents are deceased. The grandmother was unable to continue to raise Joy, so a local...
Lonnie
Before coming to the village she was called “Lonely” because both of her parents were deceased. Rafiki renamed her Lonnie. Her grandmother was...
Cossam
Cossam was a quiet little boy who had lost his mother four years previously and also his father the previous year. In the care of his maternal...
Alice
Alice’s father died and her mother followed in July 2005. Her grandparents were deceased as well. Alice was left in the care of her...
Brenda
Brenda is a beautiful young girl who was born out of wedlock. Both of her parents passed away in 2005 of an illness. The family that was caring...
Ruki
Ruki and her older sister were abandoned by their parents. The two girls were living on their own in a mud hut for many months. The neighbors gave...
Ruth
Since the death of their parents, Ruth and her two sisters were in the care of an aunt. Their aunt had three children of her own and doubling the...
Jummai
Both parents died within two years of each other and Jummai was left to be raised by her grandmother. Social welfare was concerned with her...
Wongani
Wongani is a dear little boy who lost both his parents by the age of two. He was in the care of a fifty-five-year-old widow who was also caring...
Leonard
Leonard is a double orphan. He and his twin brother, Boniface, were taken to live with their uncle. The uncle was not physically well and unable to...
Emanuel
Emanuel’s mother died when he was eighteen months old and his father is unknown. Emanuel moved in with his grandmother but she died in 2011. This...
Lisa
Lisa’s mother died when she was two years old and her father two years later. Since then she had lived with her aunt. She and her husband were...
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.
Rahab
Rahab’s mother was unable to care for her and her father remains unknown. Rahab's was in the care of her grandfather since her birth before coming...
Josephine
Josephine’s mother died within days after giving birth to Josephine and her twin sister, Theresa. The father’s parents were caring for the girls...
Jamesetta
Jamesetta and her sister, Amelia, and brother Jimmy, arrived at the Rafiki Village in October of 2012. They are dearly loved by their grandmother...
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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