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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
Rebecca
Rebecca’s mother died and her father was killed when she was a young child.
Patience
Patience was abandoned by her mother in 2005, and her father cared for her until he died in 2008.
Josephine
Josephine’s mother died within days after giving birth to her and her twin sister, Theresa
Bertha
Bertha lost both of her parents to an illness.
Clarisse
Clarisse's elderly grandmother cared for her since her birth.
Tiwonge
Tiwonge first arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Mika
Mika and his brother, Bulus, had been in the care of their elderly grandparents after the death of their parents.
Rebecca
Rebecca arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Lucy
After Lucy's parents died in 2011, she lived with an unemployed uncle and his children until Social Welfare contacted the Rafiki Foundation in 2012...
Christabel
After both of Christabel’s parents died of illness, she and her brother Jehosephat arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2008.
Agnes
Agnes was abandoned by her family and was referred to the Rafiki Village Uganda at two years of age.
Josiah
Josiah's mother is deceased, and his father remains unknown. He and his twin brother Joseph arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya in 2003.
Teeweh
Teeweh and his older sister Adele arrived at the Rafiki Village in 2012 after their mother died and their father gave them up.
Diana
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Adeline
Adeline and her mother were living with a family friend when her mother left one day and never returned.
Zerubabel
After Zerubabel's father died and his mother abandoned him, he was placed in the care of a widow.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel and his sister, Mary, were born to a mentally-ill mother who lacked the mental and physical faculties to care for them, and their father...
Samuel
Samuel was like many children when they first arrive at Rafiki. He arrived with no shoes, and he looked very malnourished.
Rebekah
Both of Rebekah’s parents died in 2004 from unknown causes.
Kelia
An old woman from a local village brought Kelia to a police station in 2011, hoping to find someone to care for her.
Faith
Faith’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and her father died soon after in an accident.
James
James’s father died HIV+, and his mother also had HIV.
Mirriam
Mirriam’s father died in 2003, and her mother died two years later.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
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