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Griffin was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Education by Kenyatta University for developing Starehe Boys' Centre and School. [8]He was awarded the MBS (Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear) by President Kenyatta in 1970, the MGH (Moran of the Order of the Golden Heart) by President Daniel arap Moi in 1986, appointed an Officer in the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in ...
Starehe UK was founded in 1970 to help support Starehe Boys' Centre. In 1994–1996 it raised over £1M through the Aim High Appeal to establish an endowment fund in the UK for the Centre. It has supported Starehe Girls' Centre since its founding. 2009 was the fiftieth anniversary of the Starehe Boys' Centre. The Girls' Centre was opened in 2005.
Joseph Kamiru Gikubu (1934 – 8 May 2014) was a Kenyan educationist and co-founder of the Starehe Boys' Centre. [1] [2] [3] He was also an active member of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, also known as Mau Mau, during the struggle for independence against British colonists.
Once the then Education Minister George Saitoti committed to provide teachers for the school, many people and institutions joined in after that including foreign embassies and the Starehe Boys' alumni. Starehe Girls' Centre was born and is 100% free with the government providing the teachers and the donors paying the support staff.
The Edinburgh Community Health Partnership (CHP) has responsibilities around delivering community health services and also addressing inequalities in Edinburgh for NHS Lothian. [ 4 ] When the CHPs were established in 2005 they provided a single management structure, taking over control of community services which were transferred under their ...
The hospital was established in 1988. [1] The building was acquired by Health Care REIT, Inc. in 2015 along with Aspen Healthcare's three other London hospitals for £226 million and leased back to Aspen on a 25-year lease.
Starehe was the second of the three estates in Nairobi to employ the garden city concept after Ziwani then Kaloleni. [1] Land on the westerly parts of Starehe estate that was originally had housing units, is currently occupied by a secondary school: Starehe Boys' Centre and School. The piece of land set aside for establishment of a boys and ...
The hospital included an outpatient department which opened on 24 September 1875 and in the first year of opening 364 patients were seen with 2,271 attendances. There were initially only 2 inpatient beds but the number of these had increased to 8 by 1 July 1876, with reports of beds being almost completely filled thereafter for that first year ...