My Name is
Winnie
Winnie
After her mother died, Winnie was sent to live with her uncle. He struggled to properly feed her. Due to malnutrition, Winnie was behind developmentally. Social welfare services recommended that she be placed at the Rafiki Village Malawi, and she arrived in 2007. Now, Winnie's favorite subjects are math, Bible, and science. She hopes to become a physician someday. Winnie came to know Jesus through the Rafiki Bible Study. She trusts Christ because He is her Savior who gave up His life for her.
DOB: Mar 10, 2001
Jane
Before coming to Rafiki, Jane lived with her mother. Due to her mental condition, Jane's mother could not properly care for her.
Memory
Memory’s mother died four days after her birth.
Janjay
Janjay’s mother died after giving birth to her, and her father died shortly after in a car accident.
Jeff
Jeff’s father died in 2003, and his mother died in 2005.
Miatta
Miatta’s mother died of yellow fever and her father, a policeman, was killed in the Liberian war.
Onesmus
Onesmus's mother passed away two months after he was born.
Caleb
Caleb’s parents died when he was four years old, and his relatives were unable to care for him because they are impoverished and relied on...
Divine
Divine was placed in the care of her aunt after both her parents died of an illness.
James
James was referred to the Rafiki Foundation by a social worker from a group in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.
Abiba
Abiba Ruth's father abandoned her, and her mother is terminally ill.
Inocent
Inocent was malnourished and small for his age when he arrived at Rafiki Village Tanzania in May 2012. His grandmother cared for him after he was...
Keza
Keza was brought to her elderly grandmother in 2009 after both her parents died of sickness.
Samuel
Samuel’s father died in 2003, and his mother died in 2005.
Rose
Rose was brought to a children's home in Moshi, Tanzania in 2008 by a pastor from a local church after she was abandoned by her mother.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel lived with his elderly grandmother after the death of his parents.
Khumbo
Khumbo's mother died in 2007 when he was two years old, and his father’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Joshua
Joshua and his twin brother, Samuel, arrived at Rafiki Village Liberia in July 2013.
Florence
Florence was referred to the Rafiki Village Malawi by social services on behalf of her dying mother.
David
David’s mother died in 2007, and his father died in 2008. He arrived at the Rafiki Village Ghana in 2010.
Cephas
Cephas's father died just before he was born, and his mother died when he was just four years old.
Wesen
Wesen's father died in 2009, and his mother abandoned him and his brother, Abraham, eighteen months later.
John
Both of John’s parents died, leaving him with no one to care for him.
Lemmy
Lemmy and his sister, Eva, were living with their grandmother, who did not have the means to feed them every day, before they came to Rafiki.
Aaron
Aaron was abandoned as a small child near a police station.