My Name is
Jack
Jack
After Jack’s mother died in 2006, he began living with his grandparents. His grandmother died soon after that. Though his grandfather did his best to care for him, he did not have a steady income to provide for Jack. Social services recommended Jack be placed in the Rafiki Village Zambia, and he arrived in 2007. Jack is known for often having a winsome smile on his face. He really enjoys reading novels, and he gains valuable insight from the characters in the stories. Jack believes that God has given him a new heart, saved him, and made him His child. He believes Jesus is the Son of God. Jack knows God wants him to obey, and he is learning to find answers to life's questions in the Bible.
DOB: Feb 21, 2003
Hope
Hope’s father died HIV positive, and his mother was also living HIV positive and was very sick. She wanted Hope placed in a good home before she died.
Biruk
Biruk was eighteen months old when his mother died. He then moved in with his aunt.
Memory
Memory’s mother died four days after her birth.
Isaac
Isaac was abandoned by his grandmother who could not care for him as a small child.
Mphatso
Mphatso's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father remains unknown.
Juliet
Juliet lost her mother in 2003 and her father in 2004. She was then put in the care of an aunt who could not care for her basic needs. She arrived...
Alexander
After his parents died, Alexander was placed in the care of a man in his village.
Naomi
Naomi’s mother abandoned her, and her father is unknown. She and her two siblings, John and Michael, were in the care of their blind grandmother...
Josiah
Josiah's mother is deceased, and his father remains unknown. He and his twin brother Joseph arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya in 2003.
Rachel
Rachel was orphaned when she was just three months old and was then taken in by her grandparents.
Sumaya
Sumaya's father died when she was a young child, and her mother started living with another man who was unwilling to care for her.
Ben
Ben’s mother died in November 2006, and his father sometime before that.
Emmanuel
When Emmanuel was a young child, he was carried on his mother’s back as she wandered the city of Accra.
Edwin
Edwin’s father abandoned him when he was a young child, leaving him with his uncle.
Ruth
Ruth’s mother brought her to the nursery of a hospital for an exam and then abandoned her there.
Isaac
Isaac was brought to the Rafiki Village in 2011.
Harriet
Harriet's father passed away from AIDs, and her mother was also diagnosed HIV+ and was no longer able to care for her.
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney...
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Kasayoka
Nancy's (Kasayoka) father died when she was two and her mother died eighteen months later.
Livingstone
After the death of both his parents, Livingstone lived with his grandfather.
Siphiwe
Siphiwe’s mother died of a fatal illness, and it is believed that her father also died in Zimbabwe.
Grace
Grace’s teenage mother gave birth to her and then left the hospital the next morning, abandoning Grace.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.