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Jimmy
Jimmy and his twin sister Jane were brought to a local police station after their mother died in the Kenyatta National hospital. Eventually, Jimmy's grandfather was located, but he was unable to care for the twins. Both the children were placed with the Kitui children’s home in October 2002 and then came to Rafiki Village Kenya in May 2004. Jimmy is attentive during Bible lessons and enjoys Physical Education. He is learning to take instructions and corrections without talking back.
DOB: Jul 21, 2002
Rachel
Rachael lost both of her parents to an illness when she was two years old. She lives with her aunt who cares for six orphans and five of her own...
Isaiah
Isaiah’s grandparents were too old to care for him so he had living with a maternal aunt. She had six of her own children and was unable to care...
Jack
Jack is a double orphan. He was living with his grandmother who survived by subsistence farming. The household was very vulnerable with inadequate...
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...
Vivian
Vivian’s mother is mentally ill. Her father is unknown. Vivian was carried around on her mother’s back and was out with her wandering the streets...
Paul
Paul and his twin brother, Isaac’s, mother was sick and admitted them to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The mother passed away...
Akosua
Akosua and her twin brother, Kwasi, were in the care of their grandfather after the death of their parents. He was unemployed and could not feed...
Tabitha
Tabitha was left in the care of her elderly grandparents when her mother died. They were too poor to care for her, and her other relatives survive...
Peter
Both Peter's mother and father died when he was an infant. Social welfare referred him to the Rafiki Village Kenya and he joined his new family in...
Rachael
Rachael and her sister, Mary, were orphaned in 2009 when their parents were killed in a car accident. Their caregivers had a meager income and...
Michael
Michael’s mother abandoned him, and his father is unknown. He and his two siblings, Naomi and John, had been in the care of their blind grandmother...
Negassa
Negassa's father has absent for some time, and his mother died in 2008. He was living with his grandmother, but she is unable to care for him....
Awumbe
Awumbe’s parents were both millet farmers in Ghana. Awumbe’s mother died during a riot and his father died some time later. Awumbe and his siblings...
Veronica
Veronica and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism. After the death of their parents in...
Thomas
Both parents died from unknown causes and the people in the village were unable to provide sufficient care for him. Social welfare was concerned...
Agrippa
Agrippa’s mother died during his birth, and his father had also died. Agrippa lived with his grandmother Iris since birth. Iris was older and very...
John
John’s parents were killed in a tragic bus accident. John’s mother was pregnant with his little sister, Chipo, at the time of the accident and she...
Willson
Willson was found at the gate of a babies' home by an unknown person who was walking past the home. After an investigation of the situation, a...
Alexander
Both Alex's parents are deceased. He lived with this elderly grandmother for a short time. He came to live at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2003....
Blessing
Blessing’s father died in a motor accident before she was born. Her mother died three weeks after her birth. She was living with her aunt who had...
Mumo
Mumo came to Rafiki from an orphanage for babies in Nairobi. He was living there since February 5, 2005. His elderly grandparent took him there,...
Nancy
Nancy’s mother died, and her father is unknown. Before arriving at Rafiki, Nancy was living with her seventy one-year-old grand mother. Nancy was...
Tendo
Tendo and her sister, Josephine, were living in a local hospital in Kampala for some time. They were placed in a temporary home for abandoned...
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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