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Kenny
Kenny and his brother, Brino’s, mother died of an illness and their father is unknown. Their elderly grandmother took them in but struggled to provide for them as well as four other children. She was a poor farmer with no steady income. The boys were not in school and their grandmother was concerned for their future; she contacted Rafiki for help. The boys arrived at Rafiki Village Rwanda in February 2014, their grandmother was overjoyed with the bright future for her grandsons.
DOB: Feb 1, 2011
Judith
Judith’s father died in 2008 and her mother died in 2009. After that, she lived with her grandmother. There were seven people already living in...
Naomi
Naomi’s father died when she was a year old. Her mother is also deceased. She and her sister Eden went to live with their uncle. He had several...
Joshua
Joshua was abandoned by his sixteen year old mother. She was mentally challenged and frequently left the child with strangers. Social welfare...
John
John’s parents were killed in a tragic bus accident. John’s mother was pregnant with his little sister, Chipo, at the time of the accident and she...
Juliet
Both of Juliet’s parents died when she was about two years old and she was living with her impoverished grandmother. Social welfare was concerned...
Rebecca
Rebecca's father died of an illness in 2003 and her mother in 2009. At that time she went to live with her grandparents. They were elderly and...
Teeweh
Due to the difficult home situation for Teeweh and his older sister, Adele, the Rafiki Foundation welcomed them into the Rafiki family. Teeweh’s...
Janvier
Janvier’s father abandoned him and his mother and moved to Tanzania. Janvier’s mother was sick when her husband left her and so she and Janvier...
Rebekah
Both of Rebekah’s parents died in 2004 from unknown causes. Since then she had lived with an elderly, blind, grandfather. With his disability and...
Beatrice
Both Beatrice's parents died and she lived with her grandparents and her four brothers and sisters for a while. It was a struggle for the...
Dorcas/Deborah
Deborah lived happily with her parents until the year 2001 (she was three years old) when her parents and three siblings went missing during the...
Estery
Both of Estery’s parents passed away from an illness. When she arrived at the Village her body was malnourished, she had slight anemia, and a...
Dativa
Dativa’s mother died of AIDs and her father is unknown to the family. Before her mother died she gave birth to her half-sister Mutoni by another...
Moses
Moses’s mother died shortly after giving birth to him. The father is an impoverished farmer and had no means to care for a new baby as well as his...
Julie
Since the death of their parents, Julie and her two sisters were in the care of an aunt. Their aunt had three children of her own and doubling the...
Paul
Paul lost both his parents to AIDS at age four. He was placed in the care of his impoverished grandmother but the burden of caring for Paul became...
Emmanuel
Emmanuel and his sister Mary were born to a mother who is mentally ill and a father who has abandoned them. For the first three years of Emmanuel’s...
Isaiah
Isaiah’s grandparents were too old to care for him so he had living with a maternal aunt. She had six of her own children and was unable to care...
Akua
In 2007 Akua’s mother and father both died of a sickness only a few months apart. At that time Akua went to live with her uncle. He is a farmer but...
Wesen
Wesen's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother Abraham eighteen months later. The boys' older sister brought them to...
Harriet
Harriet's father passed away from AIDs, and her mother was also diagnosed HIV+ and was no longer able to care for her. Without a relative to raise...
Kofi
In 2006 both of Kofi’s parents died in a vehicular accident while they were transporting their farm produce to a nearby market. Afterward, Kofi...
Blessing
Blessing lost her father before she was born and her mother ran away in 2000 and was returned to the village dead in 2002. Her grandmother was...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned near a police station. He was then brought to the AIC orphanage in Mogogosiek, an orphanage about four hours away from the...
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