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Jennifer
Jennifer
Jennifer was the only child of her parents. They both passed away in 2004. The mother’s relatives brought Jennifer to her grandfather but he could not take care of her. Social Welfare wanted to provide her with a place to live as soon as possible and so they contacted the Rafiki Foundation. Jennifer arrived at her new home in March 2007.
DOB: Feb 1, 2003
Emmanuel
Emmanuel and his sister Mary were born to a mother who is mentally ill and a father who has abandoned them. For the first three years of Emmanuel’s...
Patricia
Patricia was deemed in need by the Social Welfare Office in Malawi and asked the Rafiki Foundation for help. Patricia's mother died and because of...
Stella
Stella was abandoned by her mother at Kakamega Provincial General Hospital. The police could not find her mother, and the baby was referred to a...
Joseph
Both of Joseph’s parents are deceased. He and his sister Abigail came to Rafiki Village Ghana in January 2002. Joseph (or Baba as we call him here...
Philip
Philip’s mother died in childbirth then his father cared for him until he died of cancer in 2005. He was sent to distant relatives to live but they...
Tizeta
Tizeta's was abandoned by her mother, and her father is unknown. She lived with her grandparents before arriving at Rafiki in 2010. Her...
Alice
Alice was abandoned to her grandmother when she was only five months old. Two years later the grandmother passed away and Alice was given over to...
Anna
After Anna’s mother died in July of 2005, all of the children came to live with their maternal aunt who was a mother’s assistant at Rafiki. The...
Jane Kacyeye
Jane’s parents were living in Uganda when they died from a terminal illness. A Good Samaritan helped Jane and her sister, Deobrah’s, elderly...
Jane
Jane was referred to Rafiki by Katherine Hines Ministries. The report from social services states that both her parents died of AIDs. Jane was...
Nancy
The father of Nancy died before she reached four years of age and her mother has died from a fatal illness. Before her mother's death she wanted...
Judith
Judith's parents were killed in tribal clashes in 2002. Living relations were having great difficulty caring for his physical, spiritual and other...
Kwaku
Kwaku’s father became ill and died in 2007. Then Kwaku’s mother became ill and died in April 2009. Kwaku’s grandmother took Kwaku and his older...
Victoria
Vicky was abandoned by both her parents at birth and brought to the state run orphanage in Jos, Nigeria. When she was screened for the Rafiki...
Chloe
Chloe is an orphan, both of her parents died when she was about three years old. She was left with her grandmother who struggled to care for her....
Claudia
Claudia was passed from one house to another in the village where her parents died. Her elderly grandmother was unable to adequetly care for her....
Mary
Mary and her sisters lived with their aunt and her family since the death of their parents. The aunt was a farmer, unable to feed her own two...
Isaac
Isaac and his twin sister, Sandra, were left as orphans when their father died in 2009; their mother had died in 2007. An aunt offered to care for...
Epa
Epa’s mother died shortly after giving birth to him in 2003. His elderly grandmother assumed the care of him at this time. Epa’s father died in...
Samson
Samson lost his parents (probably due to AIDS) long ago at Dazek Kuru in south Jos. He needed assistance from the government or a charity...
Eves
Eves was a loving four-year-old who had lost her mother during birth and her father from an illness. She was in the care of an aunt who had many...
Mai
Mai’s history is heart-wrenching: at age four, a family friend moved her to Monrovia to begin school. Instead of enrolling her in school, Mai was...
Memory
Memory’s mother died four days after Memory’s birth. She was referred to a crisis nursery, a temporary home for infants. She has been there ever...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned near a police station. He was then brought to the AIC orphanage in Mogogosiek, an orphanage about four hours away from the...
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