My Name is
Isaac
Isaac
Isaac's mother died while delivering him, and his father died the following year in a car accident. Isaac and his brother, Esau, lived with relatives in harsh conditions in a slum in Monrovia, Liberia for a time. Social welfare services contacted the Rafiki Foundation and expressed their concern for the boys. They arrived at the Rafiki Village Liberia in 2011. Isaac now hopes to be a pilot when he grows up. He wants to visit new countries he has never seen before. His favorite subject is social studies because he loves to learn about his people's history. Isaac knows that Jesus answers his prayers and is always there for him.
DOB: Nov 5, 2006
Erica
Erica and her sister, Priscilla, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Ibrahim
Ibrahim was quite fearful when he arrived at Rafiki Village Kenya in 2004. His background and history made him fearful of change and strangers.
Vivian
Vivian’s mother was mentally ill, and her father was unknown.
Claire
Not much is known about Claire's background or family.
Grace
Grace was orphaned when she was only three months old.
Rabson
Rabson and his brother, Vincent, lived with their grandmother after their parents died in 2011.
Caleb
Caleb’s parents died when he was four years old, and his relatives were unable to care for him because they are impoverished and relied on...
Hannah
Hannah’s mother abandoned her shortly after she was born. Hannah came to Rafiki Village Kenya at less than a month old in August 2006. Now, she is...
Michael
Michael’s mother abandoned him, and his father is unknown.
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.
Wanangwa
By 2007, Wanangwa had lost both of his parents to fatal illnesses.
Wongani
Both Wongani's parents died by the time he was two years old.
Anna
Anna was left on a porch in Monrovia, Liberia when she was eighteen months old.
Dennis
Dennis arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Irene
Irene and her sister were abandoned by their parents as young children. They lived on their own in a mud hut for many months.
Fortuna
Fortuna and her brother Surafel were left in their uncle's care when their mother and father died.
Rachel
Rachel was orphaned when she was just three months old and was then taken in by her grandparents.
Isaac
Isaac's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Paul, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The boys' mother passed...
Augustine
Augustine, his twin brother Augustus, and older brother Gideon, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Lemmy
Lemmy and his sister, Eva, were living with their grandmother, who did not have the means to feed them every day, before they came to Rafiki.
Chukwudi
Chukwudi is a double orphan, having lost his father in 2005 and his mother in 2008.
Janjay
Janjay’s mother died after giving birth to her, and her father died shortly after in a car accident.
Enoch
Enoch’s father died in 2008, and his mother died the following year.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.