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Umu Blessing
Umu Blessing
Blessing lived with her aunt for about two years after her father died and her mother disappeared. Blessing suffered from severe malnutrition, and she weighed only 12 pounds at age three. When Social Welfare discovered her fragile condition, they admitted her to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center. Shortly after her hospital stay, Blessing was taken to the Rafiki Village Tanzania. She arrived in 2013. Blessing continues to be a sweet, loving young lady. She loves Jesus and enjoys singing praises to Him. She often prays for those around her and continues to grow in her knowledge of the Lord.
DOB: Jul 7, 2010
Mary
Both of Mary’s parents were ill. Her father abandoned her mother, and her mother gave her up because she was too sick to care for her.
Eyob
After his father's death, Eyob's mother abandoned him.
Martin
Martin and his sister, Grace, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2005.
Elizabeth
Reuben
Reuben’s mother died in 2007, and his father is unknown.
Margaret
After Margaret's parents died, she lived with her impoverished grandmother who had little means to provide for her and her sister, Grace.
Adele
Adele’s father struggled under the weight of caring for a young son with cerebral palsy, the children’s blind grandmother, and his own kidney...
Augustine
Augustine, his twin brother Augustus, and older brother Gideon, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Joseph Owen
Owen and his three siblings were living in a situation that required immediate intervention according to Uganda social welfare.
Robert
Robert’s father admitted him to the hospital due to malnutrition in 2001.
Lillian
Lillian lost both her parents to AIDS when she was a young child.
Mika
Mika and his brother, Bulus, had been in the care of their elderly grandparents after the death of their parents.
Johnson
Johnson’s mother died of an illness ten days after his birth, leaving him abandoned in the hospital.
Tabitha
Both of Tabitha’s parents died before she was four years old, leaving her and her four older brothers and sisters as orphans.
Feyise
Feyise, along with her brother Gadissa, were orphaned in 2008 and placed in the care of an impoverished aunt.
Moses
Moses was removed from his mother in January 2003 for his protection.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel's mother died shortly after he was born, and his father was unable to care for him and abandoned him.
Paul
Paul was brought to a local children’s home in 1999 by a pastor.
Teeweh
Teeweh and his older sister Adele arrived at the Rafiki Village in 2012 after their mother died and their father gave them up.
James
James’s father died HIV+, and his mother also had HIV.
Dalitso
Dalitso and his twin sister, Blessing, moved four times after their mother died when they were babies.
Joyce
Very little is known about Joyce’s life before Rafiki.
Abigail
Abigail was abandoned in the annex of a Nairobi hospital grounds.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.
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