My Name is
Vivian
Vivian
Vivian’s mother was mentally ill, and her father was unknown. Vivian was carried around on her mother’s back as a small child and was out with her wandering the streets in all types of weather, both day and night. Because of the mother’s mental health, she was not able to give Vivian the care and nourishment she needed. Vivian arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in April 2002. She soon benefited from the quality care, nutritious food, and loving environment at the Village. Vivian continues to mature and grow in her faith. Her favorite hymn is "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" because it reminds her that Christ will carry her burdens and give her peace.
DOB: Jan 4, 2001
Nikolas
After both Nikolas's parents died when he was a young child, his ailing grandmother referred him to the Rafiki Foundation. He arrived at the Rafiki...
Dennis
Dennis arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Augustine
Augustine arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2009.
Titus
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
Bethlehem
Bethlehem's (Betty's) mother abandoned her to go find work and left her with a neighbor.
Joseph
Joseph is a double orphan; his mother and father died in 2007.
Emanuel
Emanuel’s mother died when he was eighteen months old, and his father is unknown.
Smart
Smart’s mother died two weeks after his birth, and his father died soon after her.
Mary
Mary and her brother, Emmanuel, arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in December 2002.
Moses
Both of Moses's died when he was a young child.
Paul
Paul was brought to a local children’s home in 1999 by a pastor.
Mary
Mary lived in the A. I. Children's Home in Kitui before coming to Rafiki.
Jean de Dieu
Before arriving at the Rafiki Village in Rwanda, Jean lived with a couple who were neighbors with his mother before she died in November 2012 in a...
Dennis
Dennis lived with his grandmother after his mother became mentally ill and incapable of caring for him, and his father abandoned the family when he...
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...
Leticia
Leticia's parents died of HIV in 2010. She and her brother were brought to live with their aunt, but she was unable to care for them.
Mwiza
Mwiza arrived at the Rafiki Village Malawi in 2006 after the death of his parents.
Semegne
Semegne was orphaned shortly after she was born. No one knows her mother's whereabouts, and her father is dead.
Godiya
Godiya’s father died before she was born, and her mother died when she was a year old.
Racheal
Racheal's birth mother has never been located. Her father took another wife, abandoned Racheal, and never returned. She arrived at the Rafiki...
Eunice
Day students are children in need from the communities surrounding the Rafiki Villages who attend our Rafiki Schools with full scholarships or...
George
George's mother abandoned him, and his father remains unknown.
Janvier
Janvier’s father abandoned him and his mother and moved to Tanzania.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.