My Name is
Patience
Patience
Patience’s father was a soldier and died before she turned three. She and her brother, Luke, lived with their three older siblings and their mother until her mother died from an illness. Patience's impoverished grandmother, though she tried, could not provide for her granddaughter's needs and sought help. Patience and her brother arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2004. She enjoys studying music and would like to learn how to play many musical instruments. Patience has learned to stand strong in her relationship with Christ, and she knows that God is loving and just.
DOB: Nov 15, 2000
Isaac
Isaac’s mother died an hour after she gave birth to him, and his father shortly abandoned him after he was born.
Jessica
Jessica was found abandoned as an infant at a community school on September 14, 2009 and was taken to the police station.
Janet
Janet is one of three triplets. She and her sisters, Jennifer and Joanna, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Susan
Susan was abandoned as a child and was placed in a temporary place for abandoned children before being assigned to the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2006.
Donatha
When Donatha was extremely young, her mother and father both died of an illness.
Joe
Joe was placed in the care of an aunt after his mother and father died.
Neema
Neema's mother died while giving birth to her, and her father abandoned her.
Adam
Little is know about Adam's family and his parents whereabouts.
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Samuel
Samuel was found wandering the streets of his village when he was two years old.
Moses
Moses and his twin sister were abandoned at a shopping center, found by strangers, and taken to a local district hospital.
Memory
Memory was found in the care of a 65-year-old widow who lived in a village subsidized by the government for the homeless.
James
James was orphaned after his mother was involved in a fatal road accident in April 2005.
Nathan
Both of Nathan's parents died when he was young child.
Martin
Martin and his sister, Grace, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2005.
Esther
Esther's father died in 2004, and her mother died six months later.
John
John’s father had been deceased for a few years when his mother died in 2007.
Janvier
Janvier’s father abandoned him and his mother and moved to Tanzania.
Catherine
Both Catherine's mother and father are deceased.
Emmanuel Kobi
Emmanuel (Kobi) arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Aaron
Aaron lived with his grandmother before he arrived at the Rafiki Village Zambia
Lois
Biruk
Biruk was eighteen months old when his mother died. He then moved in with his aunt.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.