{"id":4347,"date":"2014-04-10T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T12:10:10","slug":"gor-mahia-to-launch-funds-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-launch-funds-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia to launch funds drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/logo.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of the Nation<\/p>\n<p>Without a sponsor, Gor Mahia are now contemplating rolling out a membership recruitment drive to raise funds.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The club is yet to get another sponsor after their two-year, Sh37 million deal with Brookside expired on March 31.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The league champions have been making efforts to get a new shirt sponsor but without success, club insiders say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Daily Nation Sport<\/em> on Wednesday, organising secretary David Kiilo said the National Executive Committee is planning a meeting soon, to map out modalities for a massive membership recruitment. The club is targeting at least one million members who will be expected to pay Sh100 each. Even with that, Gor Mahia chairman Ambrose Rachier says they are still shopping for a sponsor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Last week, Gor treasurer Kennedy Otieno noted that the club was set to raise a lot of money from the recruitment drive and urged club supporters to embrace the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of goodwill and if we can attract the one million fans we are targeting within the first year, then our financial challenges can be a thing of the past,\u201d Otieno said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On the other hand, Kiilo admitted that the financial situation at the club is dire, especially after an earlier anticipated deal with a cement manufacturing firm failed to materialise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the state of affairs is bad and we are not sure how we will navigate through,\u201d Kiilo lamented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor\u2019s monthly wage bill stands at Sh2.7 million besides the weekly winning bonus pay-out of Sh146,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In addition, players part with Sh35,000 weekly on training allowances ground charges, and a further Sh20,000 paid to Nairobi County government whenever they use the City Stadium for their home matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The club will this year receive about Sh7 million from the Kenyan Premier League in grants and prize money for winning the league.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-to-launch-funds-drive\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of the Nation Without a sponsor, Gor Mahia are now contemplating rolling out a membership recruitment drive to raise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}