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

 

Enhancing Partnership with our customers

Written by BSkenya

July 23, 2018

Bible Society of Kenya had an opportunity to interact with her customers from Kakamega town and its environs on July 11th 2018.

BSK conducts business forums in various towns as a way of meeting and interacting with bookshop owners, enhancing business ties with them, gain a better understanding of the environment they operate in and increase their knowledge on Bible work.

Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki, General Secretary addressing customers during the forum

A total of twelve bookshops were in attendance including; Vic, Christian Literature Centre, Gohil, Eshimwenyi, Reliz, Dodiya, Bungoma Catholic Bookshop, Luanda Best, Vaghela, Kakamega Catholic Bookshop and Ivory Bookshop. Three Kakamega branch members were in attendance and they urged the bookshop owners to consider joining BSK as members and assist BSK in spreading the word of God widely through their outlets.

The General Secretary Mrs. Muriuki talked about BSK’S programmes and activities. She acknowledged the great role that bookshops play in making BSK mission a reality by availing God’s word to the end users through stocking of Bibles in their bookshops. The customers expressed interest in being trained on the Trauma Healing programme as they wanted to be equipped with skills and knowledge on how to handle trauma related issues.

The BSK team in attendance included; Head of Business Development Mr. Thomas Tharao, Church Relations and Membership Manager Rev.William Matolo, Western and North Rift Sales Executive Mr. Peterson Nduati, Sales Manager Robert Sawe and Customer Relations Coordinator Ms. Tabitha Wairimu.

The customers noted that they were glad to be part of the team that contributes to the furtherance

Group photo of all the customers who attended the forum

of God’s kingdom as is articulated in the BSK mission to make available and promote use of Scriptures for holistic transformation of people’s lives. They further appreciated the Society for the wide variety of Bibles available for their customers which helps in enhancing spiritual nourishment amongst their buyers.

The meeting ended with a sumptuous meal served at Golf Hotel in Kakamega. We thank God for a successful event.

 

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