Matthew Rusike Children’s Home has under gone various transformations and continues to grow and has become one of the largest childcare organisations in Zimbabwe. With the support of many organisations both local and international, whose support is truly invaluable to us, we continue to grow from strength to strength. MRCH depends largely on donations from friends and other well wishers and still needs assistance in a lot of areas to enable effective programming to carry on.<\/p>\n
As of September 2017, the following areas have been identified by the Home as project objectives…<\/p>\n
Childcare, whether residential or community based happens at a cost. Education costs on average US$120 (\u00a390) a term per child for secondary education and US$40.00 (\u00a330) per term for a primary school child. Sponsorship towards education for children in the Home and those in the community helps us to reduce our costs greatly so that resources can be channeled to other needs of the children.<\/p>\n
MRCH runs a vibrant poultry, piggery and market gardening project. Currently we have two greenhouses. Of the two, one is old and has a rock outcrop which negatively affects output. Our wish is to have an additional 500square metres greenhouse. We have established the current cost to be US$5 800.00 (\u00a34330).<\/p>\n
MRCH runs an Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centre, which caters for the institutionalised children as well as those under the Community Based Orphan Care Programme. The centre has an enrolment of 45 between the ages of 3 to 6 years.\u00a0 The facility serves as a children\u2019s play area and also prepares children for formal entry into Grade One. The outdoor play equipment at the centre is dilapidated and becoming unsafe and needs replacing. We require support in the form of modern swings, slides, merry go rounds and any other relevant outdoor play materials.<\/p>\n
MRCH has a clinic and a registered nurse that caters for the health needs of both the children and staff. It also runs an effective Community Health Programme which assists orphaned and vulnerable children in the communities who are not able to meet the costs of the health services.\u00a0 This project has seen MRCH assisting children in need of medical services in all its service areas. Assistance in the form of drugs, supplementary food, baby formula \u00a0and other medical supplements is required to ensure viability of this programme.<\/p>\n
As part of its Community Based Care programme, MRCH delivers training workshops across the country which are meant to raise awareness on the needs of vulnerable children in local communities. It is also an opportunity to raise the awareness of the needs at residential MRCH.<\/p>\n
We incur costs on travel, stationery, accommodation and other associated costs for the team that is involved in this programme. The need is great and with more resources we will be able to widen our scope.<\/p>\n
These are the facts:<\/p>\n
Funding is needed because:<\/p>\n
Positive outcomes:<\/p>\n
PAST PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n MRCH Staff developed a plan for 2013 looking at the key requirements for the Home. As we have reported over the years since, many of these targets have been reached thanks to wonderful donations from Friends and a lot of hard work by the staff at the Home.<\/p>\n Feb 28th<\/sup> 2013<\/b><\/p>\n The Matthew Rusike Children\u2019s Home complex is more than 55 years old. The buildings were influenced by old designs and there is need to improve the infrastructure and staff capacity by customizing it. The 2013 work plan (sent to us by MRCH) will ensure service delivery improves and matches acceptable statutory standards.<\/p>\n MRCH Objectives:<\/b><\/p>\n Funding is needed for all the following projects:<\/b><\/p>\n 1)\u00a0\u00a0 We intend to rejuvenate the piggery project<\/b> because it is a very viable income generating project. We need 6 breeding stock and a year\u2019s supply of stock feed. The pigsties need some repairs and plumbing and a water tank installing<\/p>\n 2)\u00a0\u00a0 The family houses<\/b> were built in 2004 and are now needing some refurbishment, e.g. repairs to leaking roofs, repainting inside and out, plumbing and electricity needs checking. The boys\u2019 residence needs door locks<\/p>\n 3)\u00a0\u00a0 The clinic <\/b>needs some finishing touches to reach Zimbabwe\u2019s Medical Authority recommendations<\/p>\n 4)\u00a0\u00a0 To cover fire regulations for 2013 each building must have fire extinguishers<\/b>. We need 16 at US$460.00 each<\/p>\n 5)\u00a0\u00a0 Child sponsorship <\/b>programme – The non residential children in the Community outreach programmes do not receive sponsorships for education. The proposal is to try to set one up. There are 85 children requiring support in the Epworth area and many more in the other outreach centres in Chitungwiza, Bulawayo, Gweru and Masvingo<\/p>\n 6)\u00a0\u00a0 Staff Development<\/b>. All staff should be able to develop in their areas. Caregivers should be trained or able to attend refresher courses in these areas:<\/p>\n a)\u00a0 childcare\u00a0\u00a0 (1 \u2013 3 weeks)<\/p>\n b)\u00a0 cookery\u00a0 (3-4 days)<\/p>\n Senior staff need to work on degrees\/masters programmes in related fields<\/p>\n 7)\u00a0\u00a0 We are hoping for more and more visitors to come for short or long stays so there is a need for somewhere specifically designed for guests to stay. There are plans in place to alter the building that used to be the laundry facility for this purpose. The present 3 bedroom guest house<\/b> was always intended to provide accommodation for 6 more children needing care<\/p>\n To know more about these projects please contact MRCH at:<\/b><\/p>\n matthewrusike@yahoo.co.uk<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew Rusike Children’s Home has under gone various transformations and continues to grow and has become one of the largest childcare organisations in Zimbabwe. With the support of many organisations both local and international, whose support is truly invaluable to us, we continue to grow from strength to strength. MRCH depends largely on donations from … Continue reading “Projects”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n