My Name is
Sumaya

Sumaya
Sumaya's father died when she was a young child, and her mother started living with another man who was unwilling to care for her. She was then considered abandoned by social welfare before arriving at the Rafiki Village Uganda in 2005. Now, Sumaya is doing well in math, biology, English, and literature. She enjoys math and biology because she is interested in numbers, problem solving, and nature. Sumaya says that education is the key for her future, and she knows that she must strive to master all her subjects. She knows God loves and cares for her, and she marvels at the fact that God also cares for all of creation. Sumaya continually prays not to conform to the world but to be transformed by the renewal of her mind.
DOB: Oct 10, 2001
Austin
In December of 2008 Austin went to live with an aunt in Monrovia after his parents died.
Hope
Hope and her half sister arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2009.
Rahab
Rahab’s mother was unable to care for her and her father remains unknown.
Brian
Brian was abandoned in the hospital as a new born by his young mother.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel arrived at the Rafiki Village in Rwanda in 2011.
Moses
Moses’s parents both died within a year of each other, leaving him orphaned as an infant.
Gabriel
After Gabriel's father died in 2006, his ailing mother contacted social welfare services to intervene in her son's life.
Damaris
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Naomi
Naomi’s mother abandoned her, and her father is unknown.
Hannah
Hannah’s mother abandoned her shortly after she was born. Hannah came to Rafiki Village Kenya at less than a month old in August 2006. Now, she is...
Felix
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Memory
Memory was found in the care of a 65-year-old widow who lived in a village subsidized by the government for the homeless.
Joanna
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Moris
Moris was put in the care of an uncle after his mother died, and his father remains unknown.
David
At eight months old, David was abandoned in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda.
Gabriela
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Jennifer
Jennifer is one of three triplets. She and her sisters, Janet and Joanna, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2002.
Alex
Alex was living with his widowed mother who was dying from a fatal illness.
Beulah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Malesse
Malesse and his twin sister, Zalalem, were orphaned when they were only a year old.
Salome
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Rachel
Rachel was one of thirteen children living at a farm with her grandparents.
Irene
After both her mother and father abandoned her, Irene lived with her grandmother for a time.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.