All About Starehe Girls Centre

Starehe Girls Centre is a National boarding school that offers secondary education to purely financially disadvantaged girls from all provinces of Kenya. The school was founded in January 2005 as a charitable institution.

It caters for all the girls’ academic emotional and social needs.It is located in Njathaini, Bustani Estate off Kiambu Road, a rural setting 20 km north of Nairobi, in Roysambu Zone, Kasarani Division, Kasarani District in Nairobi County. The 55 acres of land on which the Starehe Girls’ Centre stands belonged to Mr. Duncan Gray and Mrs. Jane Auld Gray. They leased the land to Limuru Girls’ Centre which was opened in May 1982 under the Trusteeship of Dr. M. P. Chandaria, Mr. Eliud N. Njoroge and others. This Centre closed in 2002. In the Year 2003 the Trustees of Limuru Girls’ Centre agreed to have the land leased to the Trustees, of the would be Starehe Girls’ Centre. Among these were Dr. Chandaria, Mr. Njoroge and Dr. Eddah Gachukia, among others.

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SGC was founded on the principles and ethos of the Starehe Boys Centre/School, collectively known as the “The Starehe Way”. The School motto “Our Education, Our Strength” (“ElimuYetu, NguvuYetu”) reflects the spirit of academic excellence that permeates the culture of the Centre.The founders of SGC set out not merely to provide food, clothing and protection to girls in need, but to restore in them the self-confidence and self-respect so often injured by earlier misfortune in life and finally to provide them with sound enough education to serve them well in today’s competitive world.

The Centre is a National Boarding School which has over the years been improving its infrastructure and facilities by building new classrooms, laboratories, dormitories, a dispensary, a library, a dining hall, as well as a borehole to provide water and a bio gas digester.

Vision: To establish a national centre of academic excellence for bright but disadvantaged girls incorporating high standards of discipline, responsibility, integrity and service.

Mission: To provide a homely, supportive environment within which girls from disadvantaged backgrounds can develop their full potential in academic and personal development. Also to redress the imbalance in access to quality education and leadership opportunities for disadvantaged adolescent girls.

 

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Starehe Girls Centre Contacts

School Name: Starehe Girls Centre
Physical Location: Off Kiambu Road, Bustani Estate, Njathaini
Address: P.O. Box 6847, Nairobi 00200
City/Town : Kiambu
County: Kiambu
School Category: Public
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Phone Number: +254-020-2025500/2/3/
Mobile: +254-707 900 852, +254-738 255 448
Email: [email protected]