My Name is
Joseph Owen
Joseph Owen
Owen and his three siblings were living in a situation that required immediate intervention according to Uganda social welfare. Their father died in July 2006 from complications due to AIDS, and their mother was also HIV+ and not expected to live long. The children are all HIV negative, but they were very thin and anemic when they were found. All four children arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2006. Owen and his siblings soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving family environment at the Village. He knows that he has peace with God through Jesus, who has justified him before God. Owen loves reading Psalm 23 and always thanks God for a new day.
DOB: Sep 15, 2000
Dorine
Dorine and her twin sister, Irene, were living with their impoverished paternal grandmother after they were abandoned by their parents.
Yeani
Yeani's parents died in 2010, and she was placed in the care of an aunt.
Dativa
Dativa’s mother died of AIDs, and her father is unknown to the family.
Gloria
Gloria’s parents died when she was young, and she and her brother Thomas were placed in the care of her impoverished grandmother.
John
John’s mother abandoned him, and his father remains unknown.
Elikana
Elikana is a double orphan. She and her sister Mercy were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let alone...
Priscilla
Priscilla and her sister, Erica, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Mary
After the death of her parents, Mary and her sisters lived with their aunt.
Isaac
Isaac was brought to the Rafiki Village in 2011.
Frank
Frank's mother is deceased, and his father is in prison. After his father was imprisoned, Frank was left in the care of an elderly widowed neighbor.
Ben
Before arriving at the Rafiki village, Ben and his five siblings lived with their grandmother, along with her six children, in a one-room house.
Brenda
Both of Brenda's parents passed away in 2005 of an illness.
Caleb
Caleb’s parents died when he was four years old, and his relatives were unable to care for him because they are impoverished and relied on...
Deborah
Deborah’s parents were living in Uganda when they both died from an illness. Deborah and her sister Jane were then brought to Rwanda.
Nahom
Nahom’s mother died when he was just nine months old, and his father died when he was twenty months old.
Negassa
Negassa's mother died in 2008, and his father abandoned him soon after her death.
Teeweh
Teeweh and his older sister Adele arrived at the Rafiki Village in 2012 after their mother died and their father gave them up.
Faith
Faith’s mother died giving birth to her, and her father remains unknown.
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...
Fortuna
Fortuna and her brother Surafel were left in their uncle's care when their mother and father died.
Simon
When just an infant, Simon was found abandoned near a hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
Elizabeth
Maurin
After the death of Maurin's parents, she and her younger brother, Kelvin, went to live with their grandparents.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.