My Name is
Josephine

Josephine
Josephine and her twin sister Justina arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi after their mother died and their father abandoned them. Both girls soon began to thrive at the Village. Josephine is an organized student who pays attention and participates well in class. She takes her education seriously and leads her classmates in study time after school. Josephine trusts Jesus because He is always there to carry her through her times of need. She understands the truth that salvation comes by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
DOB: Dec 27, 2001
Bethuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Thomas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Karen
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
John
John has charm and charisma; he is a happy boy and has a quick smile in spite of his difficult start in life.
Naitoti
Naitoti, her sister, Nasha, and their cousin, Furaha, were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their fathers.
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Miatta
Miatta’s mother died of yellow fever and her father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Abigail
Both of Abigail’s parents are deceased. Her father passed away the year she was born, and her mother died a year later.
Genet
Genet’s mother died when she was a year old, and her father is unknown.
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...
Adam
Adam’s mother died giving birth to him, and his father died from complications of malaria.
Gideon
Gideon is genuinely kind and sweet-spirited. He is generous to those he meets and especially enjoys sharing God's Word.
Amelia
Amelia and her sister, Jamesetta, and brother, Jimmy, arrived at Rafiki Village Liberia in October 2012.
Dadi
Dadi arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Pierre
Pierre and his brother first arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2012.
Mary
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Kofi
Both of Kofi’s parents died in a vehicular accident a year after his birth. He now enjoys singing hymns and doing science experiments.
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Bernice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aidah
Aida was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by the Katherine Hines Ministries, a local orphanage in Kampala.
Gifty
Gifty is a kind, respectful, helpful, and intelligent young woman who works diligently to succeed in all her classes.
Alex
Alex was living with his widowed mother who was dying from a fatal illness.
Christabel
After both of Christabel’s parents died of illness, she and her brother Jehosephat arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2008.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.