{"id":17673,"date":"2021-04-29T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/?p=17673"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:12:16","slug":"making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Kearsney Foundation making a difference!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_38803312\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kcf-Testimony-from-Matt-du-Toit.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kcf-Testimony-from-Matt-du-Toit.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kcf-Testimony-from-Matt-du-Toit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kcf-Testimony-from-Matt-du-Toit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kcf-Testimony-from-Matt-du-Toit-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kearsney.com\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kcf-Testimony-from-Matt-du-Toit-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_38803312 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1016267612\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1016267612 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs a boy who was terrified to begin his life as a boarding school student, I can say that had I not gone down the path that was Kearsney College, I would not be the man of which I am so proud to be today. The assistance I received from the Kearsney Foundation changed my life and will forever be a defining factor in my journey. I will never be able to fully express the immense gratitude I have\u00a0 for their Scholarship and Bursary Program for it is truly incalculable, and I will certainly give back to the Foundation when I am able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Testimony from Matt Du Toit (Finningley, 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a boy who was terrified to begin his life as a boarding school student, I can say that had I not gone down the path that was Kearsney College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":17676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-foundation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kearsney Foundation making a difference! 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