My Name is
Rhoda
Rhoda
Rhoda's mother died when she was a small child, and her father abandoned her. For a time, she lived with her grandmother and eleven other children, but food was scarce and there was no opportunity for an education. Rhoda's grandmother contacted the Rafiki Foundation hoping for a better life for her granddaughter, and Rhoda arrived at the Rafiki Village Zambia in 2012. Rhoda enjoys learning new things in school, reading, and spending time with her friends. After finishing her schooling, she hopes to become a nurse so that she can help care for people. Rhoda strives to live a prayerful life, bringing everything before the Lord. She prays that she will grow closer to God and keep her eyes fixed on him.
DOB: Jul 21, 2005
Moses
Social Services recommended that Moses be removed from his home because his parents could not take care of him properly.
Dennis
Dennis arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Comfort
Comfort arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Joanna
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Enid
Enid arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Mathias
Mathias’s mother died a year after his father died and Mathias and his brother were given to an uncle for care.
Dennis
Dennis lived with his grandmother after his mother became mentally ill and incapable of caring for him, and his father abandoned the family when he...
Watson
Watson arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007 with his older brother Benjamin.
Babirye
Babirye and her three siblings were living in a situation that required immediate intervention according to Uganda social welfare.
Feyise
Feyise, along with her brother Gadissa, were orphaned in 2008 and placed in the care of an impoverished aunt.
Paul
Paul's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Isaac, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012.
Ruth
Both of Ruth's parents are deceased. She and her brother Christopher lived with their grandmother before she sought help from social welfare...
Onesmus
Onesmus's mother passed away two months after he was born.
Enoch
Enoch’s mother worked at Rafiki. Her last request before her death was her hope that Enoch could come to live at Rafiki Village Nigeria.
Joshua
Joshua's parents were killed in 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and the families living there. Joshua, his twin brother Gideon, and...
Celestina
Celestina and her sister, Esther, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in October 2009.
Bernice
After the death of their parents, Bernice and her two sisters were placed in the care of an aunt.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Rocklin
Rocklin arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Bethany
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rachel
Both Rachel's parents died when she was two years old.
Frank
Frank's mother is deceased, and his father is in prison. After his father was imprisoned, Frank was left in the care of an elderly widowed neighbor.
Epa
Epa arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2008.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.