Our History
We support education for the youth through providing educational scholarships, mentorships, and community engagement - which enables them to achieve success and self-reliance.
Since 1998, RCPUSA has been transforming lives in the village of Rabondo, Kenya and continues to unlock opportunities for thousands of young people. Hundreds of children and young adults have benefited from educational scholarships that have enabled them to complete high school or college and secure jobs or engage in self-employment. Many of these young people would not have had an opportunity for pursuing and achieving their dreams if it were not for RCPUSA.
Timon Bondo (1936 – 2020)
RCPUSA Founder
Timon Bondo (1936 – 2020) was the founder of Rabondo Community Project USA, Inc. Timon was born in Kenya and immigrated to the United States in 1962 and spent most of his life working in the US. In 1996, he returned to his home village and found a desperate situation: The local primary school had collapsed and there was no place for children to learn. He immediately contacted the educational authorities and asked to be allowed to re-open the school. They told him that the school could be reopened if the funding was secured. Upon his return to the US, he founded RCPUSA to respond to the problem.
In September 1998, he founded the Rabondo Community Project USA Inc. The organization built and equipped a primary school, a secondary school, and a medical clinic to serve the community. After the schools and medical clinic were completed, the organization worked with the local authorities to bring electricity to these institutions. When that was achieved, we raised money and drilled a well to provide clean water to the school children as well as the surrounding community.
By 2000, the primary school had been built. After completion of the primary school, RCPUSA built a secondary school to accommodate students completing primary education. In 2003, the first students were enrolled at St. Timon’s Rabondo Secondary School. The secondary school graduated the first batch of students in 2007. See our impact over the years.
RCPUSA has since handed over the primary and secondary school to the Government of Kenya to run but has continued to support the schools under a special relationship. Through this partnership, RCPUSA has continued to support capital projects such as the building of classrooms, a laboratory, and a kitchen. We are currently working on the completion phase of the water project – which will pipe water to distribution points at the schools, medical clinic and a kiosk for the community. Learn more about our current needs.