My Name is
Selah
Selah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or subsidies. They receive an excellent classical Christian education, daily Bible study, two nutritious meals per day, and basic school supplies. For a child in Africa, attending school means more than ABCs or 123s; it means a hope for a future – spiritually and materially. Your support makes that hope possible for these day students, their families, and their communities. We have given each day student an alias for the privacy and protection of the child and his/her family. If you sponsor a day student, you will receive some additional information about the child and will communicate with the child using the assigned alias.
DOB: Jun 24, 2004
Innocent
Innocent’s mother died in 2005, and his father abandoned him, leaving him in the care of an uncle who also abandoned him as a child.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s mother died when he was eighteen months old, and his father is unknown.
Boniface
Boniface is a double orphan. He and his twin brother, Leonard, lived with extended relatives for a time before arriving at Rafiki.
Sara
Sara's mother abandoned her when she was an infant, and her father remains unknown.
Moses
Moses was left as an orphan after his mother was killed in a traffic accident. His father remains unknown.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel's mother died two days after he was born.
Ebenezer
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Susanna
Susanna’s mother died within a month of giving birth to her. Her father abandoned her and was then reported to have died.
Patience
Patience’s mother died a month after she was born. Her father was killed a year later in a farming accident.
Frank
Frank arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2010.
Michael
Michael’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and his father died after an accident.
Esther
Esther and her sister, Celestina, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Emmanuella
Emmanuella (Muki) arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Sindani
Sindani and her two older sisters were cared for by their elderly grandmother after the death of their parents.
Wesen
Wesen's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother, Abraham, eighteen months later.
Kilonzi
Kilonzi arrived at the Rafiki Village Kenya with his older brother Mumo in 2006.
Mercy
Mercy is a double orphan. She and and her sister Elikana were in the care of an impoverished widow who had neither food nor home for herself, let...
Eyob
After his father's death, Eyob's mother abandoned him.
Nicodemus
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Glen
Glen was found abandoned in 2005.
Emily
Before Emily arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007, she was in the care of an aunt and uncle who did not have the means to properly feed her.
Khumbo
Khumbo's mother died in 2007 when he was two years old, and his father’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Deborah
Deborah and her sister and cousin arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2012.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.