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Sibongile
Sibongile’s mother was impoverished an unable to care for her or her sister. They were both given to their grandmother who was equally poor. After a time it was established that Sibongile and her sister were going to need another home. She moved into the Rafiki Village in Malawi and adapted quickly. She has a love for school and looks forward to spelling and running races during P.E. Her teacher says she is beginning to be more competitive and draws motivation from her peers.
DOB: Dec 5, 2008
Mercy
Mercy's parents were killed in March 2010 in mudslides that buried an entire village and the families living there. Mercy and her younger twin...
Samuel
Samuel was like many children who first come to Rafiki. For our first meeting he arrived with no shoes and looking very malnourished. The man who...
Shadreck
Shadreck lost both his parents early in life. He was being cared for by a widow in a secluded village where his physical and emotional needs were...
Tiwonge
Tiwonge came to us from extremely vulnerable circumstances. Her mother suffers from extreme mental disabilities and her father abandoned them very...
Anna
Anna was left on a porch in Monrovia, Liberia. She was eighteen months old. To this day nobody knows who her parents are. After several failed...
Augustine
Augustine, his twin brother, Augustus, and older brother, Gideon, were left as orphans when their mother died of typhoid fever in January 2010....
Surafel
Surafel and his sister, Fortuna, where left in the care of an uncle when their mother and father died. Their uncle struggled to care for the...
Emmanuel
Since birth, Emmanuel was carried on his mother’s back as she wandered the city of Accra. Many times Emmanuel and his mother slept on the street....
Donatha
Donatha’s life has been difficult from the very beginning. Because Donatha's mother died when she was young, and her father abandoned her shortly...
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...
Yordanos
Yordanos and her younger brother lived with their grandmother after their father died and their mother abandoned them. Their grandmother had three...
Emmanuel
Emmanuel’s mother died in 2005 and his father in 2006. He then lived with his grandmother and aunt with three other orphaned children. The aunt...
Lilian
Lilian was born a twin but was separated from her brother at birth. Her mother gave her over to an aunt. Lilian's aunt died a few months later, and...
Ruth
Ruth’s mother was unable to care for her, and she was placed in the care of her elderly grandmother. The family lived in poverty, and her...
Philip
The mother and father of Philip died of an illness within a year of his birth. He was living with his uncle who could not properly care for his...
Mai
Mai’s history is heart-wrenching: at age four, a family friend moved her to Monrovia to begin school. Instead of enrolling her in school, Mai was...
Emmanuel
Emmanuel was abandoned at a hospital in Rwanda when he was twelve months old, had malaria, and weighed only eleven pounds. The police have searched...
Sharon
Sharon's mother is deceased and her father is unknown. Her grandparents were elderly and financially unable to care for the child. She had been...
Tabitha
Tabitha was left in the care of her elderly grandparents when her mother died. They were too poor to care for her, and her other relatives survive...
Jack
After Jack’s mother died in 2006, he began living with his grandparents. His grandmother died soon after that. His grandfather did his best to care...
Beatrice
Beatrice’s parents died of a terminal illness shortly after she was born and was put in the care of her grandmother. The grandmother was a...
Meklit
Before arriving at the village, Meklit's grandmother cared for her. The whereabouts of her mother and father remain unknown. Her grandmother sold...
Erick
Erick had been living with his uncle who had been caring for his own six children. There was not adequate funds for him to care for his own family,...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned near a police station. He was then brought to the AIC orphanage in Mogogosiek, an orphanage about four hours away from the...
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