[3] In addition to their duties at Starehe Centre, Griffin and Geturo were appointed (and re-appointed) members of Kenya's Central Probation Commission.
After a couple of years, his attention turned to children orphaned by the war, and he started a rescue centre, out of which grew another school, Starehe.
[9] Griffin, together with Joseph Kamiru Gikubu and Geoffrey Gatama Geturo, founded Starehe Boys' Centre in July, 1959.
The Centre claims several distinguished alumni, including: Raphael Tuju, former cabinet minister and current secretary general of the Jubilee party; 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;[11] and late Prof. George Magoha, Medical Surgeon & Urologist, was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi and former Minister of Education, are Old Stareheans.
On 19 June 2009, President Mwai Kibaki launched The Griffin Memorial Endowment Trust to cater to the educational needs of bright but needy children.