My Name is
Janet

Janet
Janet's mother died in 2012, and it was soon confirmed that her mother's husband was not her biological father. Janet was then cared for by an aunt who could not provide for her basic needs. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2013. Janet is a good student and a strong reader. She has learned to trust Jesus through reading the Bible in the daily Rafiki Bible Study. Janet values that God is sovereign and forgiving.
DOB: Mar 8, 2012
Gritty
After both of Gritty's parents died, she arrived at Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Joe
Joe was placed in the care of an aunt after his mother and father died.
William
William was brought to a hospital with head injuries in August 2003.
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.
Augustine
Augustine, his twin brother Augustus, and older brother Gideon, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Namukolo
Namukolo and his brother, Clifford, lived with his parents in a small rural village before their mother died in 2010. The father abandoned them and...
Charles
Charles was abandoned as a baby and taken to a local orphanage. Little is known about his background or his family.
Chawanangwa
Both Chawanangwa’s parents are deceased.
Stella
Stella was abandoned by her mother at Kakamega Provincial General Hospital.
Korah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Candace
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Lois
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gracious
Gracious’s mother died of stomach cancer shortly after giving birth to her.
Jacob
Jacob first arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2006 after the death of his parents.
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Linda
Linda's parents died in 2004. She was living with relatives for a time, but they found they could not provide for her and her brother, Caleb.
Kalkidan
Kalkidan was abandoned at a very young age, so his elderly grandparents cared for him.
Wesen
Wesen's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother, Abraham, eighteen months later.
Olivier
Olivier arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Darris
Darris's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Joseph
Joseph is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2007.
Patience
Patience was abandoned by her mother in 2005, and her father cared for her until he died in 2008.
Kelia
Kelia arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2011.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.