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Mercy
Both of Mercy’s parents are deceased. She has brothers and sisters who are older, impoverished, and unable to care for her. Social Welfare determined that she would benefit from the care of the Rafiki Foundation and so she was placed at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2004. Mercy has completed her studies at the Rafiki School. She will be taking three college entrance exams this fall. Several teachers take turns prepping the graduates for the WAEC (West Africa Examination), NECO (Nigeria Examination), and JAMB (university entrance exam). Excellent marks are required on each exam to be accepted into a university. She wants to go to the University of Jos.
DOB: May 7, 1999
Vivian
Vivian’s mother is mentally ill. Her father is unknown. Vivian was carried around on her mother’s back and was out with her wandering the streets...
Donatha
When Donatha was extremely young her mother and father both died of illness. Soon after Donatha was sent to live with her father’s first wife. Her...
Nikolas
After his parents died his grandmother then cared for him but she had rapidly declining health. She contacted Social Welfare for help. They...
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...
Ezekiel
Both parents died within two years of each other and Ezekiel was left to be raised by his grandmother. Social welfare was concerned with his...
Violet
Violet's story begins with tragedy. She was conceived out of wedlock. Her mother died in childbirth and her father died just a year later. Violet...
Atsu
In 2007 Atsu’s mother and father both died of a sickness only a few months apart. At that time Atsu went to live with his uncle. He is a farmer but...
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...
Erica
Erica and her two sisters are double orphans. They lived with their widowed grandmother after the death of their parents. The grandmother is a yam...
Francisca
Francisca’s mother died after a short illness when Francisca was one year old. Her father died six months later. After the death of her father,...
Moses
Moses and his younger sister Stephany were removed from their mother in January 2003 for their protection. Moses was placed in a separate home...
Martin
Martin’s grandmother assumed responsibility for four children in the family following the death of Martin’s father. Due to failing health, poor...
Katherine
Social Services referred Katherine to Rafiki because she was abandoned by her parents. Social services decided to remove her from her home and...
Jacob
Jacob’s father died after a brief illness when Jacob was nine months old. His relatives were very poor and his two older siblings were not able to...
Dalitso
Dalitso and his twin sister Blessing, had moved four times since their mother died when they were babies. They lived at two babies’ homes and then...
Alexander
Both Alex's parents are deceased. He lived with this elderly grandmother for a short time. He came to live at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2003....
Blessing
Blessing's mother died in childbirth in May, 2006. Her father died on April 13, 2010. Before the father's death, an aged maternal aunt had been...
Makatee
Makatee’s mother died in a car accident when she was eleven months old. Her father died shortly thereafter. Makatee and her half sister were sent...
Clinton
Grandparents cared for Clinton and his sister, Mary, since the tragic deaths of their parents. They were overwhelmed with the burden of two small...
Serge Bebito
The mother and father of Bebito have both died and the sister of the mother has been caring for him and his sister, Mufasha. However, she is...
Yamakani
Yamikani lost her father in 2004, and her mother was dying of an illness. Upon the loss of her father, Yamikani’s mother became the head of the...
Amos
Amos was abandoned in Kitui near the police station when he was only two years old. He was then placed in a local home for babies and no one came...
Joshua
Joshua was abandoned by his sixteen year old mother. She was mentally challenged and frequently left the child with strangers. Social welfare...
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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