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Sarai
Sarai was taken in by her grandmother when her mother and father died. However, her grandmother was caring for four other grandchildren and was having difficulty providing for their basic necessities. The Rafiki Foundation was contacted and Sarai has moved into her new home at the Rafiki Village Malawi. Sarai is known as one of the hardest working students in her class. She is very active in discussion and likes to compete against her classmates in Math equation drills. She has improved her Language Arts abilities this term, especially in writing.
DOB: Dec 18, 2005
Donatha
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Janjay
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Yeani
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Israel
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Adele
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Racheal
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Yordanos
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Diane
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Dorine
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Polycarp
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Uwase
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Memory
Memory and her twin brother, Uchizi had no family to care for them. Their mother died and their father is unknown. Social welfare requested that...
Pierre
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Rachel
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Esau
The mother of Esau died while delivering his younger brother Isaac. The father died the next year in a car accident. The grandmother took them in...
Abraham
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Paul
Paul was found by a Good Samaritan who took him to the local police station. Social Welfare placed Paul in a local children’s home hoping the...
Gladys
Gladys is a double orphan. Her mother died in 2006 and her father in 2007. Her aunt was caring for her as well as four other people in a small...
Veronica
Veronica and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism. After the death of their parents in...
Lucia
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Fiyete
Fiyete was just a few months old, when her mother became sick and was hospitalized. Fiyete was staying with her aunt when her mother died in the...
Albert
Both parents were deceased in 2002 and Albert’s relatives are unable to care for him. Albert was referred by the Social Welfare offices to the...
Aaron
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