{"id":237,"date":"2012-02-02T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T10:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tiskimo.com\/mrch\/?p=237"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:59:14","slug":"meet-the-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Meet the MRCH staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Banham, our Chairman, visited the Home in September 2011 and conducted detailed interviews with many of the staff members. She has produced an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Staff-interviews-20111.doc\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">illustrated report<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> of those conversations, which illustrate the many roles the staff undertake as well as highlighting issues concerning the staff and where they feel help is most needed.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 House Mothers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8-house-mothers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-240\" title=\"8 house mothers\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8-house-mothers-300x190.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8-house-mothers-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/8-house-mothers-1024x649.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mercy, Lillian, Faith, Fungai, Mildred, Alice, Nancy and Sylvia.<\/strong> These\u00a0 warm hearted ladies lovingly care for the children in the house units. Each of them has a family of their own, mostly grown up now, who they leave with other family members for 30 days at a time while they\u2019re at MRCH then they have 10 days break to go home. All of them have very obvious pride in their homes at MRCH.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mildred.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-241\" title=\"Mildred\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mildred-260x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mildred-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mildred.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 85vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mildred<\/strong> cares for 6 babies, all under three. Amelia is the youngest at 3 months old. I said it must be a lot of work looking after so many small children and she said \u201cit\u2019s not hard when you love little ones\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The other mothers each care for 11 \u201312 children ranging from 2 to 16. Once they reach 16 they move to live in the independence units where they look after themselves with help and support available from the house mothers when needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Banham, our Chairman, visited the Home in September 2011 and conducted detailed interviews with many of the staff members. She has produced an\u00a0illustrated report of those conversations, which illustrate the many roles the staff undertake as well as highlighting issues concerning the staff and where they feel help is most needed. Excerpt&#8230; 8 House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/?p=237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the MRCH staff&#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":[13,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-visit-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofmatthewrusike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}