{"id":1337,"date":"2025-06-22T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:42:48","slug":"june-newsletter-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"June Newsletter 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-June.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">newsletter<\/a> is here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As ever, funding is very tight at the Home, and once again, salary arrears are a big part of this. Despite this, the staff continue to work and hosted a successful annual Matthew Rusike Big Sunday fundraiser earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, necessary cost-cutting means the number of children supported by the Home is reducing further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a brighter note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Matthew Rusike Sunday School choir came first at Circuit level, competing with 21 other choirs, with a lovely photo of them on stage in their new uniforms in the newsletter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The annual fundraiser recognised the dedication of several longstanding members of staff<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home leavers taking jobs in Turkey, others studying at a University  or taking vocational courses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With two more students passing their Advanced level qualifications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June newsletter is here. As ever, funding is very tight at the Home, and once again, salary arrears are a big part of this. Despite this, the staff continue to work and hosted a successful annual Matthew Rusike Big Sunday fundraiser earlier this month. Unfortunately, necessary cost-cutting means the number of children supported by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=1337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June Newsletter 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}