My Name is
Valiness

Valiness
From a young age, Valiness lived with her impoverished grandmother who could not provide for her needs. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2007. Valiness excels in many academic subjects and catches on quickly to learn new things. She especially enjoys math and language arts. Valiness has professed faith in Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior. She is grateful that God forgives all who confess their sins and trust in Him. Valiness finds comfort in the fact that God is trustworthy and all-knowing.
DOB: Jan 25, 2003
Eunice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ebenezer
Ebenezer and his brother arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009. He is a thoughtful and creative young man who enjoys assisting his teachers.
Samuel
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Josephine
Josephine and her twin sister Justina arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi after their mother died and their father abandoned them.
Purity
After her parents died in 2004, Purity was placed in the care of her aunt and uncle.
Benjamin
Benjamin faced a childhood trauma when his mother was killed in the Liberian Civil War.
Dennis
Dennis arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
David
At eight months old, David was abandoned in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda.
Naomi
Naomi and her three sisters lost their mother due to high blood pressure and their father to alcoholism.
Mai
At age four, Mai was taken by a caretaker to Monrovia, Liberia to begin school.
Sophie
Sophie was found abandoned and malnourished as young child.
Rebecca
When she first arrived at the Village, Rebecca became an avid reader, sitting for hours with a book and reading to younger Rafiki children.
Tendo
After Tendo and her two sisters, Christina and Peace, were orphaned as small children, they lived with their grandmother for a time.
Michael
Michael’s mother died of an illness in 2005, and his father died after an accident.
Sandra
Sandra and her two cousins arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda in 2012.
Sarah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Samson
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Susan
Susan's mother is deceased and her father is in jail.
Dinah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Hope
Hope’s father died HIV positive, and his mother was also living HIV positive and was very sick. She wanted Hope placed in a good home before she died.
Scovia
Scovia’s parents died within two years of each other, and their cause of death is unknown.
Martha
Martha's parents were killed during the conflict in the Ivory Coast.
Dorcas
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.