My Name is
Katherine
Katherine
Social Services referred Katherine to Rafiki because she was abandoned by her parents. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2006 and has since enjoyed her new home. Kathy loves playing basketball. She is a good team player who displays good sportsmanship. Kathy's favorite subjects are math, English, and biology. She enjoys early sacred music lessons and appreciates the fact that music has been a gift from God since the beginning of the world. Kathy also plays the viola in the Rafiki Youth Orchestra. She seeks to imitate Christ, rejoice in hope, and be in constant prayer.
DOB: Sep 25, 2001
Judith
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Sharon
When Sharon was barely a toddler, her parents died in a fatal accident.
Michael
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Silas
Silas arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
John
John’s mother abandoned him, and his father remains unknown.
Priscilla
Priscilla and her sister, Erica, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Naitoti
Naitoti, her sister, Nasha, and their cousin, Furaha, were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their fathers.
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney...
Charles
After the death of their father, Charles and his brother, Denis, went to live with their impoverished aunt in a small, one-room house.
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...
Hannah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rebecca
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth’s father died in 2005, and her mother died soon after in 2007.
Samuel
Samuel was like many children when they first arrive at Rafiki. He arrived with no shoes, and he looked very malnourished.
Randall
Randall was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth.
Phineas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Eve
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Kelia
Kelia arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2011.
Mary
Mary lived with her maternal grandmother after her mother's death. Her mother died in 2003 when Mary just over one year old.
Sindani
Sindani and her two older sisters were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their parents.
Zelalem
Zelalem and her twin brother, Malesse, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Nahum
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Samson
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.