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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

 

Empowering Youth through the Young Samaritan Programme

Empowering Youth through the Young Samaritan Programme

Written by BSK

November 22, 2023

A successful Young Samaritan decentralized workshop was held from November 8th to 9th 2023 at Navakholo in Kakamega County.

Young Samaritan is an empowering life skills program targeting young people to prepare them for puberty and adult life. The goal of the programme is to help the youth to integrate responsible decision-making for themselves and community development.

The Young Samaritan programme is based on the story of the good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-37 which gives a picture of the journey of our lives and how to navigate the different seasons.

The workshop brought together 60 youths who had an opportunity to learn from BSK facilitators and engage with each other through the sessions that included friendship and peer pressure, sexuality and puberty changes, health and environment, children’s rights, HIV prevention and stigmatization, making good decisions and being a good Samaritan.

As for Kenya, adolescents need information and knowledge on how to build self-esteem, handle peer pressure, develop identity, handle school challenges, self-expression, and sexuality among others. The young ones appreciated the workshop, adding that they had learned how to map their life journey, build confidence, interact with peers, and make positive life choices.

We hope that the youth shall share the information learnt with their friends and peers in school, Church, and family so that they can have a strong foundation in life, grounded in God’s word.

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  1. Peter Ochieng Rapemo

    I therefore request for financial aid to support the most needy orphans and vulnerable children, neglected people living with HIV AIDS and very needy persons with disabilities.l also request for Bibles and other Christian books
    Kindly send us Bibles and other books to our postal address: P.O BOX 506-40222 OYUGIS KENYA.
    We hope for your assistance and advice
    Thank you

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