{"id":947,"date":"2022-10-18T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/?page_id=947"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:52:13","slug":"501c3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/?page_id=947","title":{"rendered":"501(c)3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kenyan Outreach, Inc. 501(c)3 Charity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/photo-of-pastor-peter-in-Kenya.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-849 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/photo-of-pastor-peter-in-Kenya.jpg 480w, https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/photo-of-pastor-peter-in-Kenya-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>KOI traces our roots to the vision of Pastor Peter Kaimathiri M\u2019Tuamwari,&nbsp;who founded Kioni Generations High School in the Meru Kenya area in&nbsp;2002 to provide educational opportunities for orphans and other abandoned&nbsp;children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kioni High School was adopted as a mission project for East Cobb United&nbsp;Methodist Church in Marietta, GA in 2006. As the scope of mission&nbsp;increased, a separate entity dedicated to the needs of the people of Kenya&nbsp;was required. KOI was conceived in 2011 and granted 501(c)3 status in 2013,&nbsp;allowing donations to be tax deductible per current IRS regulations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013 a decision was made to close the Kioni Generations High School&nbsp;due to the proliferation of public schools in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/photo-of-pastor-peter-preaching-in-Georgia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-850 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/photo-of-pastor-peter-preaching-in-Georgia.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/photo-of-pastor-peter-preaching-in-Georgia-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>KOI changed our model at that time to begin providing merit-based scholarships to enable orphans and other abandoned children to receive a high school education that \u201cthe least of these\u201d would not otherwise receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/?page_id=941\">Donate to Kenyan Outreach, Inc<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan Outreach, Inc. 501(c)3 Charity KOI traces our roots to the vision of Pastor Peter Kaimathiri M\u2019Tuamwari,&nbsp;who founded Kioni Generations High School in the Meru Kenya area in&nbsp;2002 to provide educational opportunities for orphans and other abandoned&nbsp;children. Kioni High School was adopted as a mission project for East Cobb United&nbsp;Methodist Church in Marietta, GA in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-947","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyanoutreach.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}