Holidays

Each holiday, most children at MRCH have the opportunity to stay with foster families in the rural areas.  These foster parents are people who have responded to the invitation to care for the orphaned and vulnerable children for a total of three months per year.  The foster families show amazing love and kindness to the children – welcoming them into their lives, homes, and communities.  In addition to this they even send them back to MRCH with gifts and resources for their coming school term.

From the perspective of the Matthew Rusike Children’s Home as an organisation, the short-term transition to and from foster care over the holiday period is run in an effective and thorough way.  Children are diligently handed over to foster parents in the rural areas, with the supervision of a social worker from the Department of Social Welfare.  Interviews are done once the child returns from their foster homes, to ensure that the child has felt safe and well cared for. 

Personally delivering 90 children to four different districts is an impressive effort.  And it should also be noted that the normal van that delivers the children died just before the beginning of the last holiday and an alternative vehicle had to be hired to complete this task.   The home now has no vehicle to transport children, but we are hoping and praying that some solution is found before the Christmas holiday starts.
Anthea