My Name is
Gabriela

Gabriela
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: Aug 29, 2013
Eliya
Eliya and his brother arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Chukwudi
Chukwudi is a double orphan, having lost his father in 2005 and his mother in 2008.
Claire
Claire arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Charity
Both of Charity's parents were killed during riots in Jos, Nigeria.
Miriam
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
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.
Winnie
After her mother died, Winnie was sent to live with her uncle.
Abel
After Abel's mother was killed in a car accident, an elderly neighbor brought Abel into her home.
Paul
Both of Paul's parents died when he was four years old, and he was then placed in the care of his impoverished grandmother.
Rebecca
When she first arrived at the Village, Rebecca became an avid reader, sitting for hours with a book and reading to younger Rafiki children.
Leul
After Leul's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Virginiah
Virginiah is a double orphan.
Jehu
Jehu's mother died of yellow fever and his father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Brighton
Brighton came to the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 along with his older brother Petros after the death of their parents.
Gelane
Gelane’s parents died two years apart from one another.
Samson
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Makatee
Makatee’s mother died in a car accident when she was eleven months old.
Abigail
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Afia
Afia arrived at Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009. She enjoys studying French and strives to work hard in all she does.
Ebenezer
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney...
Mary
Mary was referred to the Rafiki Village Kenya by an orphanage about four hours away. She came to Rafiki in October 2004.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.