The African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Kenya (A.F.E.W Kenya Ltd) also known as the Giraffe Centre is a non profit making organisation, which was founded by the late Betty and Jock Lesilie Melville in 1979. This was in a bid to save the endangered Rothschild giraffes, which had lost their habitat in Western Kenya to agriculture and they were only about 130 left in the wild. Betty and Jock through AFEW U.S.A. raised funds and four breeding herds were moved to four parks namely; Lake Nakuru National Park, Mwea National Game Reserve, Ruma National Park and Nasalot Game Reserve.