My Name is
Janet
Janet
Janet is one of three triplets. She and her sisters, Jennifer and Joanna, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002. They soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving environment at the Rafiki Village. God's faithfulness encourages Janet to rely on him to make beauty out of the trials in her life. Janet sees joy as the most prevalent fruit of the spirit in her life, and she strives to show others that joy and love.
DOB: Mar 24, 2002
Patience
Patience’s mother died a month after she was born. Her father was killed a year later in a farming accident.
Mary
Mary lived in the A. I. Children's Home in Kitui before coming to Rafiki.
Olivia
Olivia and her twin sister, Gloria, were placed in the care of their uncle after their father died.
Janvier
Janvier’s father abandoned him and his mother and moved to Tanzania.
Hillary
Hillary was found abandoned in the Moshi area when he was just four months old.
Samuel
Smart
Smart’s mother died two weeks after his birth, and his father died soon after her.
Adam
Adam is a double orphan. His mother and father died of malaria in 2007.
Simon
Simon was found abandoned alongside the road in 2001.
Derrick
Derrick was referred to Rafiki by a local children's ministry.
Martha
Martha's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Emmanuel
Little is known about Emmanuel's life before coming to the Rafiki Village Rwanda.
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...
Brenda
Brenda's mother is deceased and her father is in prison.
Tendo
After Tendo and her two sisters, Christina and Peace, were orphaned as small children, they lived with their grandmother for a time.
Atimbil
Atimbil and his brother and sister, Awumbe and Azuma, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Tiwonge
Tiwonge first arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Johnson
Johnson’s mother died of an illness ten days after his birth, leaving him abandoned in the hospital.
Aquila
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Grace Masozi
Grace lived with her grandmother after the death of her mother and father in 2006.
Leah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Leul
After Leul's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Adonay
Adonay's mother tried to abandon him on the street in the Somali Region, but a man from the health station intervened and gave her some money to...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.