My Name is
Gifty

Gifty
Gifty arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in June of 2009. Gifty is a gifted young woman who truly lives up to her name! She is kind, respectful, helpful, and intelligent. She works hard and succeeds in all of her classes. Gifty trusts that God will carry out all the wonderful plans he has prepared for her.
DOB: Aug 21, 2003
Rose
Rose was brought to a children's home in Moshi, Tanzania in 2008 by a pastor from a local church after she was abandoned by her mother.
Aidah
Aida was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by the Katherine Hines Ministries, a local orphanage in Kampala.
Esau
Esau's mother died while delivering his younger brother, Isaac, and his father died the next year in a car accident.
Jonathan
Not much is known about Jonathan’s parents.
Akosua
Akosua and her twin brother Kwasi arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Boaz
Boaz's mother lacked the mental and physical faculties to adequately care for him. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2008.
Namukolo
Namukolo and his brother, Clifford, lived with his parents in a small rural village before their mother died in 2010. The father abandoned them and...
Neema
After the death of her mother and father, Neema lived with her elderly grandmother and adult sister.
Perpetual
Perpetual arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in November 2010.
Bernice
After the death of their parents, Bernice and her two sisters were placed in the care of an aunt.
Leticia
Leticia and her brother arrived at the Rafiki Village in Rwanda in 2012.
Samuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Titus
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Mercy
Mercy is a double orphan. She and and her sister Elikana were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let...
Paulina
Paulina’s father died before she was born, and her mother died in 2003.
Judith
After Judith’s mother passed away in 2006, she was placed in the care of her grandmother, who could not provide for her basic needs.
Jeremiah
After the death of his parents, Jeremiah lived with a family member. Though she tried, this family member could not provide for Jeremiah's basic...
Alex
Alex was living with his widowed mother who was dying from a fatal illness.
Ellen
Ellen arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in November of 2010.
Luka
Luka's mother died when he was a young child, and his father abandoned him.
Ruth
Ruth’s mother brought her to the nursery of a hospital for an exam and then abandoned her there.
Robel
Robel and his sister, Etsub, lived with their mother until she became terminally ill with liver disease.
Lillian
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.