My Name is
Godwin
Godwin
Godwin lived with his unemployed aunt and uncle before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2011. Godwin is now a smart young man. He particularly enjoys studying mathematics, and he thinks he would like to become a pilot someday. He enjoys playing basketball, and he is really good at the sport. Godwin takes comfort in the fact that God loves him and cares for him. He continues to be thankful for the many blessings he has received at Rafiki.
DOB: Jul 16, 2008
Paula
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gift
Gift was abandoned by his parents at a young age and placed in the care of his grandmother.
Blessing
Blessing and her twin brother Dalitso, had moved four times since their mother died when they were babies. They lived at two babies’ homes and then...
Grace
Grace was orphaned when she was only three months old.
Munyithya
Munyithya's father died four months after he was born, and his mother followed eighteen months later before his second birthday.
Obadiah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Adam
Adam’s mother died giving birth to him, and his father died from complications of malaria.
Peter
Both Peter's mother and father died when he was an infant.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel arrived at the Rafiki Village in Rwanda in 2011.
Julia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Shadreck
After the death of his parents, Shadreck was in the care of an impoverished widow could not properly feed him.
Gadissa
Gadissa, along with his sister Feyise, were orphaned in 2008 and placed in the care of an impoverished aunt.
Joseph
Joseph was abandoned by both of his parents at birth and was being cared for by a state-run orphanage just outside of Jos, Nigeria. At age three,...
Issac
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Israel
Israel’s mother was mentally incapable of caring for him, and his father is unknown.
Pamela
Pamela and her brother, Francis, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Alex
Alex was living with his widowed mother who was dying from a fatal illness.
Dalitso
Dalitso and his twin sister moved four times as babies after their mother died.
Deborah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Eve
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Anjela
After being abandoned by her mother, Anjela lived with her elderly grandfather in a small mud hut.
Joshua
Joshua was abandoned by his sixteen-year-old mother.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.