My Name is
Godiya
Godiya
Godiya’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was a year old. She was then placed in the care of her elderly grandmother. Godiya's grandmother was impoverished and, though she tried, unable to care for Godiya. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2006 and soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving family environment at the Village. Godiya says that God has made Himself known to her through His Word. She continues to pray to do well academically. Godiya also prays to grow spiritually and to display the fruit of the spirit to others.
DOB: Mar 15, 2002
Elube
Elube’s parents died when she was a young child.
Rebecca
Rebecca arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Elikana
Elikana is a double orphan. She and her sister Mercy were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let alone...
Dennis
Dennis arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Leticia
Leticia's parents died of HIV in 2010. She and her brother were brought to live with their aunt, but she was unable to care for them.
Sarah
Sarah was born prematurely in a private clinic in March 2005. Her mother disappeared soon after she took Sarah to the hospital, and her father...
Spencer
Both of Spencer's parents are deceased, and he was living with his elderly, impoverished grandmother in a desperate situation.
Uwase
Uwase’s parents died in 2010.
Joe
Joe was placed in the care of an aunt after his mother and father died.
Alice
Alice was abandoned and given to her grandmother when she was only five months old.
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Benjamin
Benjamin faced a childhood trauma when his mother was killed in the Liberian Civil War.
Olivier
Both of Olivier’s parents died—his father before he was born and his mother a year after his birth.
Emmanuel
When Emmanuel was six months old, his mother took him to visit her cousin.
Edmund
Edmund and his brother, Ebenezer, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in May 2009.
Rachel
Rachel’s parents died from a terminal illness.
Claude
Claude’s father died before he was born, and his mother died in the hospital giving birth to him.
Janvier
Janvier’s father abandoned him and his mother and moved to Tanzania.
Isaac
Isaac's mother died while delivering him, and his father died the following year in a car accident.
Kiziya
Kiziya’s father died in 2006 after a brief illness, and her mother died while giving birth to her younger brother, Isaac.
Afia
Afia arrived at Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009.
Esther
Esther's father died in 2004, and her mother died six months later.
Ruth
After the death of their parents, Ruth and her two sisters were placed in the care of an aunt.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.