My Name is
Leah

Leah
Leah has been an orphan since 2003. Leah and her younger brother, Elijah, went to live with a distant relative who had four children of his own to care for. Unable to support the children, the extended family released Leah and her brother to the care of the Rafiki Village Nigeria; they arrived at the Village in 2004. Leah is strengthened by God's promise to never leave nor forsake His people. She is learning to trust in the Lord more and more each day, and she wants to glorify God in whatever she does.
DOB: Dec 31, 2001
Shedrak
Shedrak’s mother died in 2006 and his father died shortly after.
Bethuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Namukolo
Namukolo and his brother, Clifford, lived with his parents in a small rural village before their mother died in 2010. The father abandoned them and...
Silas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Benjamin
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
James
James's parents died within months of each other; he was an orphan before he was six months old.
Caleb
Caleb’s mother was placed in prison when he was young child, and his father is unknown.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah was abandoned by both his parents at birth.
Michael
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Janjay
Janjay’s mother died after giving birth to her, and her father died shortly after in a car accident.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father was unable to care for him and abandoned him.
Phineas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gladys
Gladys is a double orphan. Her mother died in 2006, and her father died in 2007.
Joseph
Joseph's mother was disabled, and they were internally displaced as a result of the 2007-post-presidential elections violence.
Faith
Faith’s mother died giving birth to her, and her father remains unknown.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s father died in a mountain climbing accident shortly before Emanuel was born, and his mother died when he was five years old.
Serge
Serge (Bebito) arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Gerald
After the death of both Gerald’s parents, he was living with his older sister.
Marcel
Marcel arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2013.
Rachel
Both Rachel's parents died when she was two years old.
Sindani
Sindani and her two older sisters were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their parents.
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and its inhabitants.
Afia
Afia arrived at Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.