My Name is
Tizeta

Tizeta
Tizeta was abandoned by her mother, and her father is unknown. She lived with her grandparents for a time before arriving at the Rafiki Village Ethiopia in 2010. Her grandparents were elderly and unemployed, and they sought help from social services. They referred the family to the Rafiki Foundation. Tizeta's favorite hymn is "O The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus" because it reminds her that God's love for her is everlasting. Through studying God's Word, she has learned to pray for others and obey God's commands.
DOB: Oct 14, 2004
Cilicia
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Dennis
Dennis arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Priscilla
Priscilla and her sister, Erica, are double orphans. After the death of their parents, they lived with their impoverished, widowed grandmother....
Gloria
Gloria and her twin sister Olivia were abandoned and given to a paternal uncle when their father died.
Olivia
Olivia and her twin sister, Gloria, were placed in the care of their uncle after their father died.
Semegne
Semegne was orphaned shortly after she was born. No one knows her mother's whereabouts, and her father is dead.
Grace
Grace's parents died within one year of each other, and she was then put in the care of a maternal aunt.
Isaiah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Sarah
Sarah was born prematurely in a private clinic in March 2005. Her mother disappeared soon after she took Sarah to the hospital, and her father...
Miriam
Miriam and her younger brother, Daniel, were placed with their grandfather after their parents died.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah was abandoned by both his parents at birth.
Nahum
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Samuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Simon
Both of Simon’s parents were farmers and died from unknown causes.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father had died before her.
Ethan
Ethan’s mother died shortly after he was born, and his father died in 2002.
Saul
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Peter
Peter's mother died of meningitis one month after his birth.
Comfort
Comfort arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Segen
Segen's young mother abandoned her soon after giving birth to her, leaving Segen with her grandmother.
Belis
Belis' mother is deceased and her father is in prison.
Joshua
Both of Joshua’s parents are deceased. His father died from a brief illness in 2004, and his mother died when Joshua was two years old.
Tapiwa
Tapiwa and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.