My Name is
Vivian
Vivian
Both of Vivian's parents died in 2005. She briefly lived with a maternal uncle, but he was unable to care properly for Vivian. She arrived at the Rafiki Village Nigeria in 2006. Vivian is now a good student who enjoys school. Vivian says the book of Ephesians has become very special to her, and she enjoys studying Paul's words with other Rafiki girls. Vivian seeks to continue learning more about God and growing spiritually closer to Him.
DOB: Oct 6, 2000
Besufekad
Besufekad’s mother had mental-health problems and could not properly care for him.
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.
Ruth
Ruth’s mother brought her to the nursery of a hospital for an exam and then abandoned her there.
Denise
When Denise was one month old, she was abandoned at the Kenyatta National hospital.
Isaac
Isaac's mother was sick and admitted him and his twin brother, Paul, to a transient home in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2012. The boys' mother passed...
Florence
Florence was referred to the Rafiki Village Malawi by social services on behalf of her dying mother.
Valante
Valante arrived at the Rafiki Village Rwanda 2010.
Jennifer
Jennifer and her twin sisters lived with their aunt and her family after the death of their parents.
Silas
Silas arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Sensee
Sensee’s mother died three days after giving birth to her.
Isaac
Isaac's mother died while delivering him, and his father died the following year in a car accident.
Saul
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Ester
Ester was in the care of her impoverished grandmother after her parents died of a fatal illness.
Abel
Abel was found abandoned as a baby.
Nancy
Both of Nancy's parents died when she was a young child
Gideon
Gideon and his younger twin brothers arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Joseph
Joseph is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2007.
Anjela
After being abandoned by her mother, Anjela lived with her elderly grandfather in a small mud hut.
Cephas
Cephas's father died just before he was born, and his mother died when he was just four years old.
Selah
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
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.
Abigail
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Timothy
Timothy was abandoned at a church as a small child.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.