My Name is
Emmanuel

Emmanuel
Emmanuel arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009. He soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving family environment. Emmanuel is confident that God is with him in all things, and he knows that God brought him to Rafiki. He is thankful for the opportunity to learn, study God's Word, and now share with his extended relatives who God is. Emmanuel is a boarding student at the Rafiki Village Rwanda.
DOB: Dec 28, 2005
Blessing
Blessing's mother died in childbirth in May, 2006.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel was seriously malnourished when he and his sister Phiona arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2005.
Miriam
Miriam was found at a local market in the Machakos district of Kenya.
Selah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Jessica
Jessica was found abandoned as an infant at a community school on September 14, 2009 and was taken to the police station.
Leah
Leah was abandoned as a baby, and her parents remain unknown.
Ruth
Ruth was placed in the care of her elderly grandparents after her own parents died.
Jehu
Jehu's mother died of yellow fever and his father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Alexander
Both Alex's parents are deceased. He came to live in the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2003.
Judith
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mercy
After both Mercy's parents died, she was placed in the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2004. Now, Mercy has graduated from the Rafiki School.
Adam
Adam arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Rich
Rich’s mother died in 2011, and his father abandoned him.
Albert
After the death of both of his parents, Albert arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Inocent
Inocent was malnourished and small for his age when he arrived at Rafiki Village Tanzania in May 2012. His grandmother cared for him after he was...
Isaac
Isaac's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Paul, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The boys' mother passed...
Erica
Erica and her sister, Priscilla, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Catherine
Catherine’s mother died in 2005, and her father committed suicide in 2008.
Priscilla
Priscilla's father went missing after riots broke out near their village when she was a child.
Chloe
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Divine
Divine arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Francis
Francis and his sister, Pamela, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Carol
Carol lived with her grandmother after her mother became mentally ill and incapable of caring for her, and her father abandoned the family when she...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.