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

 

A Bible for Every Child-Makueni Bible Distribution

Written by BSK

May 22, 2023

Students happy to receive Scriptures from BSK

This past week, from 15th to 19th May 2023, Bible Society of Kenya visited 32 Marginalized schools in Makueni County reaching 10,162 children and youth in schools with Scriptures ranging from Good News Bibles, Revised Standard Version, New Testaments, Walk Through the Bible, Simply Bible, and Hope portion. Every child received a Bible!

Get to know Makueni

Makueni is in Eastern region of Kenya. It has a population of 987,653 people with six sub-Counties i.e., Makueni, Kibwezi East, Kibwezi West, Kilome, Mbooni and Kaiti. The Society visited schools in all these Sub Conties apart from Kaiti.

The Experience

This has been one of the toughest Bible distribution activities ever! From the poor roads, rough and rugged terrains, to getting stuck at night for 3 hours in the middle of the thick, cold Mbooni Hills to getting lost as we tried to locate the schools that are barely in Google maps! Schools were further than Google could tell! two hours from one school to the next! Talk of getting a flat tyre and getting to schools late in the night!

Talk of children who look malnourished because of lacking food. Imagine telling their parents to purchase a Bible! Imagine telling such a parent to take their child to Church!

Did you know most marginalized schools we visited in this region have children coming from homes where families believe in witchcraft? So much that children are suspicious of one another! This gives us more reason to reach out to such with God’s word, the Bible! Saturate it as much as God enables us.

The Harvest is Huge

So many children are getting lost because they do not have anyone to share the Good News. We are the people God is counting on. We had 52 boys and girls in high school getting born again! PRAISE THE LORD!

There Has To be a cost

Like the Missionaries who first brought the Gospel where we are, God is counting on us to join hands and reach out to all and make God’s Word Available. It will cost our resources, our time and lots of sacrifice.  Can God count on us?

Why Bible Distribution?

  • To encourage the reading of God’s word which brings freedom from bondages!
  • To stir up children to perform better in religious education!
  • To build up the children morally!

We are Thankful to all our partners who DREAM WITH US for: A BIBLE FOR EVERY MARGINALIZED CHILD IN SCHOOL!

 

 

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