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

 

Committed to a Course

Written by Joy Balusi

November 3, 2020

“I have not only grown in the knowledge of the Word of God through the listening programme but also learned how to be a servant leader! It was my joy to lead this listening group! ” Phanice Wakasa.

This is a testimony from one of the 32 graduates from Free Pentecostal Church Embakasi who graduated in a colorful ceremony on November 1st, 2020. This team had listened to the entire New Testament Bible in the Kiswahili language since December 2018! They could not hide their joy after successfully completing their journey.

Bible Society of Kenya avails audio Bibles in different formats including Proclaimers, Talking Bibles, Jesus film, and Audio Torches to help people listen to and apply God’s word in their lives. The audio Bibles are available in different languages for ease of understanding by the listeners. This programme is based on Romans 10:17 – “Faith Comes By Hearing and hearing the Word of God.

The participants formed listening groups where they would listen to the Bible once a week. The participants then listened and shared with their group members what they had learned.

The speaker of the day was Mr. Thomas Tharao, Head of Business Development. He congratulated the graduates and shared some points from Luke 10:1-30 to encourage them as they go forth to serve.

  1. Work in teams
  2. Workers are few
  3. The Lord expects us to pray for one another
  4. We do not need much to serve
  5. The Lord is the ultimate provider
  6. When people reject you do not be discouraged
  7. We have authority over the enemy
  8. The Lord expects us to be a blessing, make peace and offer hope
  9. We are privileged to listen to God’s word
  10. To love the Lord and our neighbors

Here are some life-changing testimonies as shared by participants

“I have a clear understanding of some things I could not comprehend when I read the Bible alone. There is power in a listening group. I have greater motivation to read the Bible. ” Moses Kamau.

“It was a very enjoyable period of listening to the New Testament as a group! I have discovered some texts that l used to miss when reading on my own! Very insightful programme!” Ann Nyaboke

“Faith Comes By Hearing is very helpful! I did not have the faith l have today! Praise be to God! I was shy and a bit hopeless but now am very strong and l can even stand in front of a group and share! I have grown and l thank God! ” Shadrack Mutiso

This programme has helped many Christians to be grounded in the word of God. There are remarkable spiritual growth, increased Bible knowledge, and intensified Christian service in the places where it has been used.

General Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki lauded all the graduates for their dedication to listening to the programme. She encouraged other Church members to sign up for the programme and study God’s word. She added that BSK desires to see the Bible heard in every Church, learning institution, organization, hospital, children home, youth groups at least once every week so that many people can be reached and transformed with the unchanging word of God.

To participate in this programme contact us on 0719250559.

 

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