The Matthew Rusike Children's Home is managed by the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe. It was founded in 1950 by the late Reverend Matthew Rusike who took orphaned and abandoned children into his own home for care. The numbers rapidly became too large for his modest minister's home, compelling him to build and formalize an orphanage later to be named after him as the Matthew Rusike Children's Home.

In 1968, the facility was registered in terms of the Welfare Organizations Act (W/O 463/68). It was essentially providing residential care facilities for orphaned and vulnerable children. Currently the home operates on a multifaceted programme that combines residential care and community based orphan care schemes.

Although it started as an individual's vision, Matthew Rusike Children's Home (MRCH) has developed into one of the largest child welfare organizations caring for over 6,092 children in its Residential and Community Based Orphan Care Schemes, and employing a staff compliment of 36 in its residential care services. MRCH is decentralizing its childcare projects to other districts and circuits through Community Based Orphan Care and protracted residential satellite safe houses.

Located about 20km from the city centre of Harare in Epwoth Mission, the home is haven for some 143 homeless, orphaned, displaced, abandoned and deprived children aged between 0 and 18 years. Recognizing that the child is special and unique, a person of dignity and worth, the home endeavours to provide staff, facilities and resources to meet the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of the children in an individual way.

The individual care plan explores and develops the cultural and spiritual heritage, as well as the special gifts and talents endowed to each child to help overcome trauma and realize his/her full potential.

The school leaver is encouraged and supported to pursue tertiary education at commercial and technical colleges and university. In addition, the children are involved in self-help projects such as poultry keeping, gardening, piggery and tailoring.

The home's greatest achievement is placing into society a balanced and well-integrated person capable of playing a positive role in the development of Zimbabwe.