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Godiya
Godiya’s father died before she was born and her mother died when she was a year old. The elderly grandmother was impoverished and not able to care for her. Social welfare was concerned for her well being and recommended she be placed at the Rafiki Village in Jos, Nigeria. She arrived to her new home and Rafiki family in December 2006. Today Godiya is in the 8th grade. Godiya enjoys being in Junior Secondary 2 class but is struggling in several courses. She says the teacher who helps her to most is Mr. Rinti because he uses demonstrations, examples, and sometimes short stories. In art class, she has been learning how to make letter images using a mirror. She would like to go to university to become a lawyer.
DOB: Mar 15, 2002
Ishmael
Ishmael’s mother moved away to be married and start a new family, so she abandoned him and left him in the care of his elderly grandmother.
Mirriam
Mirriam’s father died in 2003 and her mother died two years later. Three-year-old Mirriam then went to live with an aunt. The aunt was also caring...
James
James’s father died HIV+ and his mother also had HIV. She contacted social services so that James and his sister, Sandra, could have a future and a...
Celestina
Celestina and her sister Esther are double orphans.
Luka
Luka's mother died and his father abandoned him. Luka was left with an aunt and elderly grandmother who could not care for him. Social welfare...
Uriah
By the time Uriah was two years old, both his father and mother had died. He then was under the care of his elderly grandmother who was unable to...
Eric
After the mother died, Eric and his older brother Eliya were in the care of their aunt. The father has also died. The aunt had four children of her...
Akolgo
Akolgo’s mother abandoned him to his grandmother and his father is unknown. He arrived at Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2001. Akolgo is...
Lulu
Lulu was abandoned at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center when she was born. At five months old, Lulu was brought to a local orphanage that cares...
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...
Priscilla
Priscilla, her twin Gladys, and their sister Erica became orphans after both their parents died within a year after Erica’s birth. Priscilla...
Mary
Grandparents had been caring for Mary and her brother, Clinton, since the tragic deaths of their parents. They were overwhelmed with the burden of...
Micheal
When he was two months old, Michael was abandoned at a shop in Kampala, Uganda. Michael then came to the Rafiki Village Uganda in February of 2005.
Stephena
Stephena's father was killed by lightning and her mother died, along with Stephena's twin, during the birthing process. Stephena has lived with her...
Aaron
Aaron lived with his grandmother before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Zambia in 2013. His grandmother, a peasant farmer, struggled to provide...
Kizito
Kizito was abandoned and found by the police and then taken to a police station. He was granted approval to move to the Rafiki Village Uganda in...
Rose
Rose was brought to a children's home in Moshi, Tanzania in 2008 by a pastor from a local church. A woman had left the child with him and ran away....
Beauregard
Beauregard’s mother died soon after giving birth to him in November of 2006. His father was killed in 2007. After the death of his father,...
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.
Joyce
Very little is known about Joyce’s life before Rafiki. At two years old, she was found wandering the streets by a probation officer on January 6,...
Mubiana
Mubiana's mother died shortly after he was born and his father abandoned him. Baby Mubiana was first placed in a short term orphan care facility...
Watson
Watson arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 with his older brother Benjamin.
Carol
Carol lived with her grandmother since her mother was not capable of caring for her, and her father abandoned the family when she was a baby. Her...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
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