My Name is
Joseph
Joseph
Joseph was abandoned by both of his parents at birth and was being cared for by a state-run orphanage just outside of Jos, Nigeria. At age three, he was screened and approved to join the Rafiki Village Nigeria. He arrived at the Village in 2003. Joseph admires the Lord's trustworthiness, and it produces in him a desire to be trustworthy.
DOB: Sep 1, 2000
Christina
Christina arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2008 shortly after her mother's death.
Daniel
Daniel’s mother and father died in 2006 when he was an infant. He and his sister Esther arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2009.
Aquila
Aquila and his sister Priscilla literally lost their father in Jan 2000, when he went missing after riots broke out near their village. Considered...
Gideon
Gideon's parents were killed in 2010 when mudslides buried their village and the families living there.
Alex
Both of Alex's parents died of terminal illnesses between 2003 and 2004. He was then referred by Social Welfare to begin living in the Rafiki...
Dalitso
Dalitso and his twin sister, Blessing, moved four times after their mother died when they were babies.
Catherine
Both Catherine's mother and father are deceased.
Derrick
Derrick was referred to Rafiki by a local children's ministry.
Samuel
Samuel’s father died in 2003, and his mother died in 2005.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
Shadreck
After the death of his parents, Shadreck was in the care of an impoverished widow could not properly feed him.
Margaret
After Margaret's parents died, she lived with her impoverished grandmother who had little means to provide for her and her sister, Grace.
Priscilla
Priscilla and her sister, Erica, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Scolastika
Scolastika and her sister Furahini lived with their grandmother after their father died and their mother disappeared.
Florence
Florence's father died before she was born and her mother died of an illness when she was only three months old.
Mercy
Mercy is a double orphan. She and and her sister Elikana were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let...
Eunice
Eunice's father died when she was two years old, and her mother died a year later.
Doreen
Doreen’s mother abandoned her in 2011, and her father is unknown.
Gershom
Gershom’s mother died in April 2007, and his father died some years before that.
Elizabeth
After Elizabeth’s mother died in July of 2005, her children came to live with their maternal aunt who worked as a mother’s assistant at the Rafiki...
John
John’s mother abandoned him, and his father remains unknown.
Dorine
Dorine and her twin sister, Irene, were living with their impoverished paternal grandmother after they were abandoned by their parents.
Ruth
After the death of their parents, Ruth and her two sisters were placed in the care of an aunt.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.