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Mary
Mary and her brother Emmanuel were born to a mentally-ill mother, and their father abandoned them. For the first three years of Mary’s life, she lived on the streets with her mother. Social welfare asked Rafiki to take in Mary and her brother because their mother was not mentally or physically fit to care for them. Mary and Emmanuel arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2002. Mary now enjoys the Rafiki Bible Study at school and family devotions in the morning and evening. She also enjoys the lyrics of the hymn "How Firm a Foundation."
DOB: Jun 13, 1997
Emmanuel
Emmanuel was cared for by a pastor of a small Baptist church and his wife after his mother died.
James
James's parents died within months of each other; he was an orphan before he was six months old.
Blaze
Blaze’s father is unknown, and his mother was very young and an orphan herself when she gave birth to him.
Belis
Belis' mother is deceased and her father is in prison.
Irene
After being abandoned by their parents, Irene and her twin sister, Dorine, were living with their impoverished paternal grandmother.
Negassa
Negassa's mother died in 2008, and his father abandoned him soon after her death.
Spencer
Both of Spencer's parents are deceased, and he was living with his elderly, impoverished grandmother in a desperate situation.
Susanna
Susanna’s mother died within a month of her birth. Her father abandoned her and was then reported to have died.
Jummai
Both Jummai's parents died within two years of each other, and Jummai and her brother Ezekiel were left to be raised by her grandmother.
Maureen
Maureen's parents died in a road accident in 2004.
Clarisse
Clarisse's elderly grandmother cared for her since her birth.
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...
Jennifer
Both of Jennifer's parents died in 2005.
Jehoshaphat
Both of Jehosephat’s parents died of a fatal illness when he was a young child.
Priscilla
Priscilla's father went missing after riots broke out near their village when she was a child.
Jerome
Jerome was abandoned at a local hospital in Kampala, Uganda in 2005.
Abigail
Abigail was abandoned in the annex of a Nairobi hospital grounds.
Jeremiah
Before Jeremiah arrived in 2011 at the Rafiki Village Tanzania, he lived at a children's home in Moshi for four years with no known family.
Sandra
Sandra lived in her uncle's care after her parent's death.
John
John’s mother abandoned him, and his father remains unknown.
Hillary
Hillary’s mother died in childbirth, so he was brought to the AIC babies’ home in Mogogosiek—a village four hours from Rafiki Village Kenya. He had...
Aaron
Aaron lived with his grandmother before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Zambia in 2013. His grandmother, a peasant farmer, struggled to provide...
Doreen
Doreen’s mother abandoned her in 2011, and her father is unknown.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
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