Hope for Makueni

Bible Society of Kenya as part of her Bible engagement initiative has been visiting both primary and secondary schools for the last 10 years distributing Scriptures to marginalized children.  The Bible serves to help the children in their CRE studies in school, Program for Pastoral Instruction (PPI) for primary school pupils where the Bible is used to study God’s Word.  The Bible also serves as a family Bible when it is carried home.  In some families there is no Bible to be studied or carried to church.  By exposing children to God’s Word at an early age helps them to grow knowing God thus developing good morals and in the end this country will have leaders of integrity molded by the Scriptures.  The Bibles already distributed have positively impacted the children, their families, and schools

Our focus is currently to revisit Makueni county and ‘finish the task’ started in 2023.  A total of -3213– Bibles were distributed then.  Makueni county has a population of 259,252 school going children 10-19 years in both from primary and secondary schools.  A big percentage of the county is arid or semi-arid making livelihood hard.  Most of the families live from hand to mouth thus a Bible is luxury to them.  An estimated with a poverty index of 3.1% 4805  children still don’t have Bibles.  It is in this regard that we are launching a campaign dabbed ‘Hope for Makueni: A Bible in every hand, Hope in every heart’.  10 people giving each Kes.100 will support one needy child with a Bible, Kes.1000 will support a child, Kes.5000 will support 5 children, Kes.50,000 support a class while Kes.25,000 will help to avail Bibles for half a class.