My Name is
Frank
Frank
Frank's mother is deceased, and his father is in prison. After his father was imprisoned, Frank was left in the care of an elderly widowed neighbor. She contacted social services, and they contacted Rafiki on Frank's behalf. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2006. He was in poor health when he arrived, but he has benefited from the healthy environment at the village. Frank now enjoys history and social studies. He excels in his language arts and literature classes. Frank says that he knows God is a God of beauty, and he sees it all around him in Rafiki Village Uganda. Frank continues to pray for a bright future and a strong relationship with Christ.
DOB: Feb 26, 2004
Erick
Erick lived with his impoverished uncle who could not provide for his needs before arriving at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Josiah
Josiah's parents were killed in tribal clashes in 2002.
Michael
Michael’s mother abandoned him, and his father is unknown.
Lillian
Lillian lost both her parents to AIDS when she was a young child.
Isaac
Isaac’s mother died an hour after she gave birth to him, and his father shortly abandoned him after he was born.
Kiziya
Kiziya’s father died in 2006 after a brief illness, and her mother died while giving birth to her younger brother, Isaac.
Denis
After the death of their father, Denis and his brother, Charles, went to live with their impoverished aunt in a small room, one-room house.
Memory
Memory was found in the care of a 65-year-old widow who lived in a village subsidized by the government for the homeless.
Judith
Judith's parents were killed in tribal clashes in 2002. She and her brother Josiah came to the Village in 2004.
Furahini
Furahini and her sister, Scolastika, lived with their grandmother after their mother disappeared.
Simon
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Wilson
Both Wilson’s mother and father died when he was a small child. Wilson and his sister were then referred to the Rafiki Village Uganda in September...
John
John’s parents were killed in a tragic bus accident. His mother was pregnant with his little sister, Chipo, at the time of the accident, and she...
Chloe
When she was a child, the police found Chloe alone in a house.
Elijah
Elijah was referred to Rafiki by an orphanage four hours away from the Village.
Jehoshaphat
Both of Jehosephat’s parents died of a fatal illness when he was a young child.
Timothy
Timothy was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a local orphanage in Kampala, Uganda after he was abandoned and given to his grandmother as an...
Furaha
Furaha and her two cousins were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their fathers.
Serena
Serena’s mother died from malaria complications three months after giving birth to Serena and her twin sister, Rena.
Eve
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Centia
Centia’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was about seven months old.
Honorine
Both Mufasha's mother and father died when she was a young child.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.