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Gifty
Gifty’s father died in 2005 and her mother died in February 2008 and no details are known about how they died. Gifty lived with her aunt and uncle. They had seven children of their own and could not continue to care for Gifty. Social welfare referred her to the Rafiki Foundation and she arrived at Rafiki Village Ghana in June 2009. Gifty is an amazing girl who truly lives up to her name! She is kind, respectful, helpful and intelligent. She works hard and succeeds in all of her classes.
DOB: Aug 21, 2003
Derrick
Both of Derrick's parents died when he was a small child, and he was placed at the Katherine Hines Ministries in Kampala Uganda. They have asked...
Laardi
Laardi’s father died in 1996 and her mother died in 2001, leaving her and her brother, Carlos, in the care of their old and weak grandmother. She...
Clarisse
An elderly grandmother has cared for Clarisse since she was born. The grandmother sustained injuries in the genocide which left her with physical...
Maurin
After the death of Maurin's parents, she and her younger brother went to live with their grandparents. The grandmother found it very difficult to...
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...
Ruth
Ruth’s mother brought her to the nursery of a hospital for an exam and then abandoned her there. Ruth was initially named “Nursery” by the staff....
Joseph
Joseph's mother was disabled, and they were internally displaced as a result of the 2007-post-presidential elections violence. Joseph's...
Yamakani
Yamikani lost her father in 2004, and her mother was dying of an illness. Upon the loss of her father, Yamikani’s mother became the head of the...
Christabel
Both of Christabel’s parents died of AIDs and the uncle caring for her had similar health issues. Christable and her brother Jehosephat need a...
Michael
Michael’s mother died of an illness in 2005 and his father died after an accident. Michael and his sister, Faith, went to live with the father’s...
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...
Naomi
Naomi and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism. After the death of their parents in 2010...
Rebekah
Both of Rebekah’s parents died in 2004 from unknown causes. Since then she had lived with an elderly, blind, grandfather. With his disability and...
Patricia
The young life of Patricia was filled with tragedy, having never known either of her parents. The mother died during childbirth and the father was...
Reuben
Reuben’s mother was a commercial sex worker. She gave birth to Reuben in Ibadan. She died in July 2007 after a brief illness, presumably HIV....
Comfort
Comfort’s father was returning home late one night after work when he was shot and killed by robbers. In October 2008, Comfort’s mother had a...
Witness
Witness lived most of her life at an orphanage. Her mother died two weeks after she was born and the father is unknown. No one in the family was...
Meklit
Before arriving at the village, Meklit's grandmother cared for her. The whereabouts of her mother and father remain unknown. Her grandmother sold...
Gershom
Gershom’s mother died in April 2007 and his father some years earlier. After his mothers death, Gershom was cared for by a pastor from his home...
Noah
Noah lived with his aging grandmother for several years. She was unable to adequately care for him. Noah came to live at the Rafiki Village Nigeria...
Gelane
Gelane’s parents died two years apart from one another. A now orphaned Gelane went to live with her grandmother. Unfortunately her grandmother was...
Paul
Paul and his twin brother, Isaac’s, mother was sick and admitted them to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The mother passed away...
Augustine
Augustine, his twin brother, Augustus, and older brother, Gideon, were left as orphans when their mother died of typhoid fever in January 2010....
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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