{"id":5795,"date":"2014-12-11T02:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2014-12-11T02:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:32:27","slug":"gor-mahia-partners-with-the-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-partners-with-the-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia partners with the Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/ken-awasi-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the Gor Mahia treasurer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia have signed a partnership with the East African Standard. The deal is aimed at helping the club foot their expensive bills involved in playing in the African champions league.<\/p>\n<div>The Short Message Service driven campaign seeks to mobilise fans to raise funds for the team and will supplement an already existing effort by the club to raise money through the pay bill number 350100. By sending an SMS to the number 22840, fans will subscribe to the service and with it make a donation to the club.<\/p>\n<div>To kick-start the campaign, Standard Group donated a cheque of Sh100,000 to the 14-time KPL champions courtesy of \u2018The Nairobian\u2019. Standard Media Group Managing Editor Digital David Ohito said the partnership between the two entities will not only help Gor raise money, but will also help officials have a register of fans. Gor Mahia treasurer Ken Otieno thanked Standard Group for the partnership and admitted that the club is broke saying the noble gesture has come at the right time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This follows a similar deal signed with the Kenya wildlife society that is geared towards defraying the cost of hosting teams and another deal with East Africa Breweries that enables fans to fund their respective teams via the &#8220;Jenga Game&#8221; campaign.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The treasurer also made the shocking announcement that the club was in arrears in player salaries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cOur accounts are empty and have not paid our players their November salary. We are calling upon corporate sponsors to come on board and assist us,\u201d he said.<\/div>\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-partners-with-the-standard\/\"\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>Gor Mahia have signed a partnership with the East African Standard. The deal is aimed at helping the club foot<\/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":[123],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-sponsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","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=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}