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Mary
Mary and her brother Emmanuel were born to a mother who is mentally ill and a father who has abandoned them. For the first three years of Mary’s life, she was on the streets with her mother who carried her on her back. Social welfare urged Rafiki to take both of the children because their mother was not fit to care for them. She and her brother arrived at Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2002. Mary enjoys the Rafiki Bible study at school as well as family devotions each morning and evening.
DOB: Jun 13, 1997
Kalkidan
Kalkidan was abandoned at a very young age, so his elderly grandparents cared for him. Because of their limited resources, his grandparents were...
Linda
Linda’s parents died in 2006 and she was left in the care of her aunt. They lived in a two room house with nine other relatives. Her aunt has...
Felistas
Felistas’ mother died shortly after her sister Gracious' birth. Their father abandoned the girls. They were placed in the care of their elderly...
Grace
Grace's parents are both deceased. As an infant, she was in the care of an aunt who soon was unable to care for her properly. She arrived at the...
Lillian
Lillian lost both her parents to AIDS. One parent died in 2003 and the other in 2004. She was placed in the care of her impoverished aunt but the...
Neema
After the death of her mother and father Neema lived with her elderly grandmother and adult sister. She was neglected due to the great need in the...
Negassa
Negassa's father has absent for some time, and his mother died in 2008. He was living with his grandmother, but she is unable to care for him....
Jane
Before coming to Rafiki, Jane lived with her mother who was epileptic and mentally unstable. They both lived with Jane's grandmother who did not...
Lulu
Lulu was abandoned at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center when she was born. At five months old, Lulu was brought to a local orphanage that cares...
Lonnie
Before coming to the village she was called “Lonely” because both of her parents were deceased. Rafiki renamed her Lonnie. Her grandmother was...
Veronica
Veronica and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism. After the death of their parents in...
George
When George’s mother and father died he was placed in the care of his sixteen-year-old aunt. She cared for George for two years and struggled to...
Blessing
Blessing was abandoned by her mother and her father is unknown. A pastor brought her to the Social Welfare Office in Lusaka. Blessing was approved...
Winnie
Winnie came to live at the Rafiki Village Liberia in July 2013. Her past living conditions were not good. She lived in a house that was half torn...
Emanuel
Emanuel’s father died in a mountain climbing accident shortly before Emanuel was born, his mother died when he was five years old. For a while he...
Amelia
Amelia and her sister, Jamesetta, and brother Jimmy, arrived at Rafiki Village Liberia in October 2012. They are dearly loved by their grandmother...
Joshua
Joshua's parents were killed in 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and the families living there. Joshua, his twin brother Gideon, and...
Martin
Martin was abandoned on May 2002 when he was two years old. A stranger took Martin to the police, and they brought Martin to a babies' home in...
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...
Vivian
Both of Vivian's parents died in 2005. She briefly lived with a maternal uncle but he was unable to care properly for Vivian. She came to live at...
Bridget
Bridget was abandoned and taken to a local orphanage as a child before moving to the Rafiki Village Uganda. Nothing is known about her background...
Elikana
Elikana is a double orphan. She and her sister Mercy were in the care of a kind widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let alone two...
Carolyn
Carolyn was abandoned as a child and was found by a probation officer. She was taken to a reception center. Social welfare did a thorough search...
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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