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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

 

Bread for Today

Written by BSkenya

May 4, 2020

When Jesus says, man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from God’s mouth, He is certainly right. He is the bread of life on which we live move and have our being.

Naturally, food sustains us and the more we feed, the more we grow. It is the same with the word of God. Unless we intentionally dig deep into it, we can never and never will we mature and grow in the knowledge of Christ.

In a season like this, we are locked up in our homes wondering what the future holds. Some of us are trying to adjust to the new norm and it is hard. We do not know the time frame but one thing we are sure of is that God will provide our daily bread. He will do so a day at a time for we worry only about today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

The Exodus was quite massive. If it were Moses feeding a multitude of people some of whom were rogues and so stubborn, it could have been an uphill task for him. Contrary, God was the provider. He planned what to eat and how long to eat. He provided manna for the determined days for every Israel family. What about us? Is God not able to provide for us during this crisis? Heaven and earth are His and He knows how to feed His own. Jeremiah notes in Jeremiah 32:17, “Ah, Sovereign God, you created the earth and the heavens by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is hard for you.” Even your provision. If God could multiply the little five loaves and two fish, what can’t He do?

The provision of manna was a picture of how God would provide His son Jesus Christ as our eternal bread. Not for a short period but eternally. If there be a time, we can be intentional with feeding on this bread that gives life presently and eternally is now. Why don’t we have more Bible reading and studying as individuals and with our families? It is a chance we have been given to feed on God’s bread – His word. May we not waste this chance.

Every day, God gives grace and we can only know this fact if we abide in Him. Abiding in him means we do as He has commanded. Doing so calls us to engage with Him in His Word. If you do not have a Bible you can buy one from shop@biblesociety-kenya.org

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