My Name is
Mary
Mary
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or subsidies. They receive an excellent classical Christian education, daily Bible study, two nutritious meals per day, and basic school supplies. For a child in Africa, attending school means more than ABCs or 123s; it means a hope for a future – spiritually and materially. Your support makes that hope possible for these day students, their families, and their communities. We have given each day student an alias for the privacy and protection of the child and his/her family. If you sponsor a day student, you will receive some additional information about the child and will communicate with the child using the assigned alias.
DOB: Jan 22, 2011
Ben
Ben’s mother died in November 2006, and his father sometime before that.
Sandra
Sandra lived in her uncle's care after her parent's death.
Sharon
When Sharon was barely a toddler, her parents died in a fatal accident.
Jonathan
Not much is known about Jonathan’s parents.
Innocent
Innocent is a double orphan. He and his sister were approved by Social Welfare to come to Rafiki in May 2008. They have rapidly transformed thanks...
Sibongile
Sibongile’s mother was impoverished and unable to care for her or her sister Siphwe.
Eve
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Michael
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Gloria
Gloria’s parents died when she was young, and she and her brother Thomas were placed in the care of her impoverished grandmother.
Grace
Grace’s teenage mother gave birth to her and then left the hospital the next morning, abandoning her infant.
Dinah
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.
Joshua
Joshua was abandoned by his sixteen-year-old mother.
Hannah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
John
John’s father died a few years before his mother passed away in 2007.
Rachel
Rachel was orphaned when she was just three months old and was then taken in by her grandparents.
Naomi
Naomi’s father died when she was a year old.
Chipo
Chipo’s parents died in a tragic bus accident. Chipo's mother was pregnant with her at the time of the bus accident, and she lived just long enough...
Yeani
Yeani's parents died in 2010, and she was placed in the care of an aunt.
Gift
Gift and her sister, Peace, were orphaned in 2010 when their father died of AIDs. Their mother abandoned the family in 2008 and is believed to be...
Chukwudi
Chukwudi is a double orphan, having lost his father in 2005 and his mother in 2008.
Innocent
Innocent’s mother died in 2005, and his father abandoned him, leaving him in the care of an uncle who also abandoned him as a child.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.