My Name is
Miriam
Miriam
Miriam was found at a local market in the Machakos district of Kenya. She was then placed in a babies’ home, and no one came to check on her or claim her. Social services recommended that she be placed in a more permanent setting and referred her to the Rafiki Village Kenya; she arrived in 2005. Miriam soon proved to be a self-motivated, disciplined student. She cooperates well with others and is actively engaged in class. She enjoys soccer and volleyball, and she enthusiastically strives to reach her full potential. She has learned through the Rafiki Bible Study that Jesus is the founder and perfecter of her faith. She strives to pursue hope, faith, and love.
DOB: Jul 12, 2005
Amos
Amos was abandoned in Kitui near the police station when he was only two years old.
John
John arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 after both of his parents died.
Maureen
Maureen's parents died in a road accident in 2004.
Israel
Israel’s mother was mentally incapable of caring for him, and his father is unknown.
Candace
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Moses
Moses arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2005.
Ato
Both of Ato's parents were deaf, mute, and mentally challenged.
Victoria
Vicky was abandoned by both her parents at birth and brought to the state-run orphanage in Jos, Nigeria. Vicky was severely malnourished and in...
Mercy
Mercy is a double orphan. She and and her sister Elikana were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let...
Lemmy
Lemmy and his sister, Eva, were living with their grandmother, who did not have the means to feed them every day, before they came to Rafiki.
Neema
Neema's mother died while giving birth to her, and her father abandoned her.
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Bertha
Bertha lost both of her parents to an illness.
Kelia
An old woman from a local village brought Kelia to a police station in 2011, hoping to find someone to care for her.
Thomas
Both Thomas's parents died from unknown causes when he was a young child, and the people in his village were unable to provide sufficient care for...
Hilda
Hilda was abandoned when she was two years old.
Blessing
Blessing lost her father before she was born, and her mother ran away in 2000 and was returned to the village dead two years later.
Kasayoka
Nancy's (Kasayoka) father died when she was two and her mother died eighteen months later.
Donatha
When Donatha was extremely young, her mother and father both died of an illness.
Paul
Paul was brought to a local children’s home in 1999 by a pastor.
Keza
Keza was brought to her elderly grandmother in 2009 after both her parents died of sickness.
Sarah
Sarah's mother passed away as a result of severe pneumonia.
Dereck
Dereck and his twin sister, Diana, were brought to the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2006.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.