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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

 

Bible reading marathon 2020 goes digital

Written by Joy Balusi

September 24, 2020

There are no boundaries in reading the word of God. You may ask why? Because it is now available in different formats and languages hence many people can read it and understand it well.

The Bible reading marathon was held from 15th to 19th September 2020. This was the first time the Bible reading marathon was done virtually!

Bible Reading Marathon is an initiative by Forum for Bible Agencies (FOBA) to encourage people to read the Bible in their languages. In the past, the marathon was held physically in a Church, where people would come from different locations to read the Bible in the language of their choice.

This year’s marathon was officially opened by the BSK Board Chairman Dr. Tim Kiruhi on September 15th at noon. He read from Ezra 7:10 which says, For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. He encouraged the participants to study the Word of God and apply it in their lives. He then read the first chapter of Genesis and the marathon progressed well after that.

The five-day marathon saw the Bible read in 13 languages including; Swahili, English, Gikuyu, Kisii, Lubukusu, Taita, Hebrew, Luo, Kimeru, Rendille, Kikamba, Maasai, Taita and Borana. It was exciting to hear the Word of God in different languages!

The readers, both young and old were from different countries including the United States of America, China, Ghana, Kenya, and beyond. It was such a joy to know that the Bible can unite people from all walks of life.

Onboard were children from Dream Children’s Home in Ngong where both boys and girls of different ages read the Bible on the third day of the marathon. Children from morning star children’s home also participated in the marathon. They expressed so much joy as most of them had never participated in a Bible reading marathon before. Street families from the Grogon area in Ngara were not left behind, they too were part of the marathon. We are so glad to testify that the Word of God is indeed open for all! The Bible Society branches were also involved including; Bungoma, Machakos, Nakuru, Meru Kisumu and Nairobi.

We also had a large following on social media who followed us live on Facebook and Youtube. We are glad that the online platforms created an opportunity for the Word of God to touch and give hope to many people who may have lost hope because of the COVID pandemic and other life challenges.

 

The marathon ended on a high note on Saturday 19th, 2020 at 10:50 pm where most people who had participated in the marathon gathered for the closing session. Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki the General Secretary crowned the marathon by reading the last chapter of Revelation. She then thanked all participants for being part of this life-changing event and encouraged them to make Bible reading to be part of their daily lives.

 

We join the Psalmist in Psalm 119:105 in saying that His word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our paths. We hope that the word of God which is alive and active will continue to unite us even as we hide it in our hearts.

 

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