This archive report was first published on 8 July 2019.
On July 8, 2019, alumni of Starehe Boys' and Starehe Girls' Centres embarked on an ambitious fundraising drive to raise over Sh400 million for the education of academically talented but needy students.
The funds will be mobilized under the Griffin Memorial Endowment Trust (GMET), established in 2009 in honour of the school's late founder, Dr. Geoffrey Griffin.
With approximately 1,500 students relying on Starehe for their basic needs, the school has a long tradition of providing scholarships to students from all over the country, based on need and performance in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination.
According to Raymond Rono, Chairman of the Old Starehian Society (OSS), the school's alumni organization, securing the future of Starehe requires strengthening the GMET fund. He estimates that with 2,000 endowments of Sh1 million each, totalling Sh2 billion, the GMET fund will guarantee free places in both the Starehe Schools, forever or for as long as both GMET and the schools are in existence.
As part of the fundraising drive, Rono is undertaking a 350-kilometre walk from Kaboi Primary School in Nandi County to Starehe Boys' Centre in Nairobi, sponsored by D.Light, a company that provides affordable, high-quality off-grid solar systems.
