My Name is
Mercy
Mercy
After both Mercy's parents died, she was placed in the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2004. Now, Mercy has graduated from the Rafiki School. She is now attending university on scholarship. She studies law at the University of Jos. While at the Village, Mercy enjoyed reading and playing basketball. She says that God has been the greatest friend that she has ever had. She marvels at how God has revealed Himself in nature and His Word, and she is learning to see the hand of God in everything around her.
DOB: May 7, 1999
Ben
Ben’s mother died in November 2006, and his father sometime before that.
Pererat
Pererat’s mother died soon after he was born, and his father disappeared after the Jos riots in 2008.
Joanna
Janet
Janet is one of three triplets. She and her sisters, Jennifer and Joanna, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Peace
Peace and her sister, Gift, were orphaned in 2010 when their father died of AIDs.
Agrippa
Agrippa’s mother died while giving birth to him, and his father died before her.
Yamikani
Yamikani lost her father in 2004, and her mother was also dying of an illness at this time.
Darris
Darris's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Justina
Justina and her twin sister Josephine arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi after their mother died and their father abandoned them.
Adam
Adam’s mother died giving birth to him, and his father died from complications of malaria.
Teeweh
Teeweh and his older sister Adele arrived at the Rafiki Village in 2012 after their mother died and their father gave them up.
Godwin
Godwin lived with his unemployed aunt and uncle before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2011.
Susan
Susan's mother is deceased and her father is in jail.
Tizeta
Tizeta was abandoned by her mother, and her father is unknown.
Cilicia
Benjamin
Kelvin
Kelvin and his sister had been in the care of their grandparents since the death of their mother and father. The grandparents found it difficult to...
Clinton
After the death of their parents, Clinton and his sister Mary arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2009.
Elikana
Elikana is a double orphan. She and her sister Mercy were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let alone...
Pamela
Pamela and her brother, Francis, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Gideon
Gideon's parents were killed in 2010 when mudslides buried their village and the families living there.
Sandra
Sandra and her twin brother, Isaac, moved to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2011.
Jack
After Jack’s mother died in 2006, he began living with his grandparents. His grandmother died soon after that.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.