My Name is
Paul
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The boys' mother passed away within the same year. The father was also sick and unemployed, and he abandoned the boys. They arrived at the Rafiki Village Zambia in November 2013. Paul enjoys a good book and is an avid reader. Paul believes Jesus is the Son of God and his Redeemer. He knows the Bible is the Word of God. He continues to pray for the strength to be diligent in his studies and in knowing God.
DOB: Jul 6, 2009
Janjay
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Polycarp
Polycarp was abandoned at the age of four and placed into a baby's home.
Adam
Adam is a double orphan. His mother and father died of malaria in 2007.
Juliet
Juliet lost her mother in 2003 and her father in 2004. She was then put in the care of an aunt who could not care for her basic needs. She arrived...
Noah
Noah’s mother died a few days after giving birth to him. He was then placed in the care of his maternal grandmother.
Makatee
.Makatee’s mother died in a car accident when she was eleven months old.
Benjamin
Benjamin came to the Rafiki Village Malawi with his younger brother Watson after the death of their parents in 2007.
Romeo
Romeo's grandmother cared for him after the death of his parents.
Abigail
Abigail was originally part of the second group of triplets to arrive at the Rafiki Village Ghana.
Adonay
Adonay's mother tried to abandon him on the street in the Somali Region, but a man from the health station intervened and gave her some money to...
Janvier
Janvier’s father abandoned him and his mother and moved to Tanzania.
Jehoshaphat
Both of Jehosephat’s parents died of a fatal illness when he was a young child.
Abenezer
Abenezer was just fifteen days old when his teenage mother gave him over to his grandmother.
Bulus
Bulus and his brother, Mika, had been in the care of their elderly grandparents after the death of their parents.
Jamila Naomi
Naomi's mother gave her over to the care of her aunt.
Ethan
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Meklit
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village Ethiopia, Meklit's grandmother cared for her.
Kefas
Kafes’s father died a few months before he was born, and his mother died when he was two years old.
Fabrice
Fabrice was abandoned and placed in front of a children’s home as a small child.
Paul
Paul had no one to care for him after the death of his father in 2006.
Ringabell
Ringabell’s mother died from poisoning and her father died of typhoid fever.
Vincent
Vincent and his brother, Rabson, lived with their grandmother after their parents died in 2011.
Zawady
Zawady is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2006.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.