My Name is
John
John
Both of John’s parents died, leaving him as a double orphan. His uncle struggled to care for him with four children of his own and no work. He eventually sought help for John. John was malnourished when he came to Rafiki in 2004. He soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving environment at the Village. John is now a very good student who enjoys school. He desires to study law, journalism, political science, philosophy, or music at a university. He sees education as a journey and not a destination. John strives to look more like Jesus every day, and he continues to pray to become a man after God's own heart.
DOB: Jul 29, 1999
Leticia
Leticia's parents died of HIV in 2010. She and her brother were brought to live with their aunt, but she was unable to care for them.
Comfort
Comfort arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Centia
Centia’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was about seven months old.
Lemmy
Lemmy and his sister, Eva, were living with their grandmother, who did not have the means to feed them every day, before they came to Rafiki.
Eltonia
Eltonia and her younger brother, Kwaku, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Mercy
Mercy was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a local ministry in Kampala, Uganda. Her parents died in 2008, and she was put in the care of an...
Kofi Sefa
Kofi’s mother suffered from psychological issues, and she was deemed mentally unfit to care for him by social welfare services.
Smart
Smart’s mother died two weeks after his birth, and his father died soon after her.
Joshua
Joshua and his twin brother, Samuel, arrived at Rafiki Village Liberia in July 2013.
John
John’s mother abandoned him, and his father remains unknown.
Blessing
Blessing was abandoned by her mother, and her father remains unknown.
Awumbe
Awumbe and his brother and sister, Atimbil and Azuma, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Ebenezer
Ebenezer and his brother, Edmund, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in May 2009.
Tiwonge
Tiwonge first arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Augustus
Augustus, his twin brother Augustine, and his older brother Gideon arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Rebecca
Rebecca’s mother died and her father was killed when she was a young child.
Samuel
Samuel’s father died in 2003, and his mother died in 2005.
Abel
Abel's mother died when he was one year old, and his father remains unknown.
Austin
In December of 2008 Austin went to live with an aunt in Monrovia after his parents died.
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.
Leah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Neema
Neema's mother died while giving birth to her, and her father abandoned her.
Enoch
Enoch’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father remains unknown.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.