Geoffrey William Griffin

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Born	June 15 , 1933
Died	June 28, 2005

Dr. Geoffrey William Griffin was the founding director of Starehe Boys Centre and School. He founded the school in 1959 with the help of Geoffrey Geturo and Joseph Gikubu, the current acting director of the school.

He also served as the founding director of the National Youth Service between 1964 and 1988 when he retired from the Kenyan Civil Service.

Starehe is the valley of hope to many orphaned and poor African children, who gained free, quality education. Many of these boys, formerly street children, are prominent people in Kenya and the world.

Although Geoffrey Griffin had a humble educational background, he rose to become a pioneering educational leader and was awarded an honorary PhD in Education by Kenyatta University for developing Starehe Boys Centre and School to become one of the premier schools in Kenya that is renowned the world over as a centre of educational excellence.

He was awarded the Moran of the Order of Burning Spear by President Kenyatta in 1970, the Moran of the Order of the Golden Heart by President Moi in 1986 and the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Kenya National Human Rights Commission in 2005 [1].