Our Programs

Literacy for Women in Africa

BSK has an adult literacy program dubbed literacy for women in Africa. This program mainly targets a group of women of child-bearing age (15 years and above) who have not had the opportunity to learn to read and write.

BSK has an adult literacy program dubbed literacy for women in Africa. This program mainly targets a group of women of child-bearing age (15 years and above) who have not had the opportunity to learn to read and write.
Other persons targeted by the programme include men, young girls, and elderly women. This could also include women who have already had the opportunity to learn to read ‘second chance.’

Turkana County has low literacy levels of 20% considering that it has a population of 926,976 speakers of the language. Non-literates account for 741,580.

The Literacy for Women in Africa programme is currently being implemented in the County with 20 active adult literacy classes spread across Loima, Turkana Central, Turkana North, and Turkana South sub-counties. The program has grown tremendously since 2018 when it began with 10 pilot classes. So far, 1920 learners have been trained with 65% of them being women.

The reason why the program majorly focuses on women is that in the marginalized communities women or girls are denied a chance to go to school, as priority is given to men. Women are seen as people who carry out house chores, bear children, go through practices e.g. female genital mutilation (FGM) and early marriages thus denying them a chance to access education or any form of schooling.

The uniqueness of this program is that it is a non-formal mother tongue-based education meant to impact adult learners with basic reading and writing skills. The main goal of the program is to enable the marginalized communities to read the Word of God in their heart language and be transformed by it.

BSK partners with the Church to implement this programme. The Churches provide venues that are used as classes, they identify passionate people who are trained as teachers, and they assist in monitoring. The Directorate of Adult and Continuing Education office has also come in handy in helping learners to transition to formal schooling to learn other subjects.

other Programs & projects

Open the Book & Programme For Pastoral Instruction PPI

Braille Bible Distribution to the VIP’s Programme

Faith Comes By Hearing (FCBH)

Mwimbi Bible Translation

Young Samaritans Programme

Literacy for Women in Africa

Bibles Eagles Club

African Biblical Leadership Initiative (abli)

Marginalized Children

 

Gikuyu Study Bible Project

Banyala Bible Translation Project

Teso Bible translation project

 

Availing God’s word to the visually impaired

Written by Joy Balusi

October 28, 2021

Bible Society of Kenya avails Scriptures to people of all ages so that they can interact with God’s word.

A monitoring visit was done on October 26th, 2021, at the Thika School for the Blind where Braille Scriptures were distributed early in the year.

We were glad to learn that students’ performance in Christian Religious Education (CRE) had greatly improved because of the Braille Scriptures that are used for the subject.

The teachers noted that students enjoy reading the Scriptures and can even memorize Bible stories. Some students said that in the past, they experienced challenges as they had to look for someone to read the Bible on their behalf. They added that Braille Scriptures have enhanced their Braille reading skills and capacity. 

Sunday services in the school have also become engaging and students participate actively since they have scripture reference Braille materials. As a result, the students’ spiritual lives have grown.

My favourite book is the Gospel of St Mark Chapter one, where God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to clear the way for you. God brought us His only Son to bring salvation to all of us and I have a message to my friends to read it. It reminds me that He will come back for me.” Bella Eboso, 12 years old in Class six

“I thank the Bible Society of Kenya for giving us the Braille Bibles. Learners are learning like normal students. The Braille Bibles have also enhanced Braille reading which is a skill required among the students. Nancy Mukami a CRE teacher in class six

“I thank God for the Bible Society of Kenya for giving us the Bibles in Braille. My performance in CRE has improved. I have learned a lot of values from the Bible e.g. respect and obedience which are often mentioned. I want to become a pastor so that I can reach out to people with disabilities and even others with the Word of God. My favourite verse is John 14:6.’’ Joshua, Student, class seven

We thank God that His word is available to all. We hope that the students’ lives will continue to be transformed as they interact with God’s word.

 

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