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Rachel
Rachel’s parents died from a terminal illness. After they died, she lived with her grandmother along with three other siblings. Rachel's grandmother could not afford to send her to school and struggled to care for all the children. She asked if Rafiki could care for Rachel. Rachel arrived at the Rafiki Village Tanzania in 2011. Rachel is now an excellent student. She is a great reader, which helps her in all her other subjects. Rachel also enjoys playing basketball, and it is fun for others to watch her play. She is quick and dribbles like a professional, and she is good at making baskets despite her short stature. As she learns new things about God and reads her Bible, Rachel continues to grow strong in her faith. She enjoys worshiping God and singing hymns.
DOB: Aug 8, 2007
Felistas
Felistas’ mother died shortly after giving birth to her sister, Gracious, and their father abandoned them.
Samuel
Samuel was like many children when they first arrive at Rafiki. He arrived with no shoes, and he looked very malnourished.
Kwaku
Kwaku’s father became ill and died in 2007, and his mother also died in April 2009.
Simeon
In 2009, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare closed an orphanage due to adoption violations.
Frederick
Frederick’s mother died in 2008, and his father is unknown.
Reuben
Reuben’s mother died in 2007, and his father is unknown.
Jean de Dieu
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village in Rwanda, Jean lived with a couple who were neighbors with his mother before she died in November 2012 in a...
Josephine
Josephine’s mother died within days after giving birth to her and her twin sister, Theresa
Laurine
Laurine’s parents died in 2006. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007.
Dalitso
Dalitso and his twin sister, Blessing, moved four times after their mother died when they were babies.
Tabitha
Tabitha was abandoned as a child, and none of her family members were able to care for her.
Godiya
Godiya’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was a year old.
Scolastika
Scolastika and her sister Furahini lived with their grandmother after their father died and their mother disappeared.
Jerome
Jerome was abandoned at a local hospital in Kampala, Uganda in 2005.
Esau
Esau's mother died while delivering his younger brother, Isaac, and his father died the next year in a car accident.
Patricia
Patricia's early life was filled with tragedy; she never knew either of her parents.
John
Both of John’s parents died in 2003. John was then placed in the care of his grandmother, but she struggled to provide for him and was unable to...
Robert
Robert’s father admitted him to the hospital due to malnutrition in 2001.
Leah
Leah was abandoned as a baby, and her parents remain unknown.
Paul
Both of Paul's parents died when he was four years old, and he was then placed in the care of his impoverished grandmother.
Ermias
Ermias' mother was mentally handicapped. She abandoned Ermias and his sister, Mehiret, and gave them to the care of their impoverished grandmother.
Jennifer
Jennifer and her twin sisters lived with their aunt and her family after the death of their parents.
Randy
Randy and his two brothers Prince and Emmanuel were abandoned by their mother when she left to visit relatives and never returned.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
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