Starehe Boys' Centre
Starehe offers a free, high-quality, education to many orphaned and poor African children, on a model similar to Christ's Hospital. Many alumni are now prominent people in Kenya and the world. Raphael Tuju, retired Cabinet Minister; Paul Ereng, Olympic gold Medalist; Dr. Amrose Misore, former Senior Deputy Director of Medical Services, and by 2010 Project Director of PATH's USAID-funded AIDS Population & Health Integrated Assistance Program (APHIA) II Western; and Prof. George Magoha, Medical Surgeon & Urologist and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi, are just a few of the Old Stareheans.
The first successor to Griffin as Director of Starehe Boys' Centre & School was Professor Jesse Mugambi, a respected and renowned educator in Kenya and previously professor of philosophy at the University of Nairobi. Three of his sons have passed through Starehe Boys' Centre as students at different times when Griffin was still the director. Mugambi resigned from his duties as Director of Starehe Boys' Centre on Friday, January 16, 2009. The reason given for his sudden resignation was that the University of Nairobi had refused to extend his contract and required him to resume his duties as a professor of Philosophy.
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