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

 

Equipping learners in Turkana County

Written by Joy Balusi

April 5, 2023

We thank God for the lives that are being transformed through the Literacy for women in Africa programme since its inception in the year 2018.

Mrs. Asinyen, beneficiary of the literacy project

Through the generosity of our donors, BSK added 15 new classes to the current 20 existing ones totaling to 35 classes in Turkana County.

A total of 30 new teachers were added to the current 40 teachers and are set to undergo a refresher teacher training in the month of April in preparation for the classes which will begin in May 2023.

A successful pre-visit was done by  a team BSK and UBS office to sample three new classes in Nadapal, Nakaporongoit and Natole centers located in Turkana Central and Turkana West respectively and an impact assessment was done in four old centers of Lokapararae, Katiko, Tiya and Kakuma.

Testimony

” I knew nothing. Attended no school and I feared books. The call for Bsk adult class opened my eyes to know the value of education. My children lied to me, the stole money through mpesa. Now it’s no more. I can read and look at their school performance. If none has written the date of class attendance? That one shows the child has lied. I have learned to deal with debtors in my business. I keep an account of their names and the amounts. The Ngaturkana Bible has positively opened my heart to forgive especially my debtors. I would encourage more women to join the class. I love the BSK t-shirt because it shows I have graduated. It’s my uniform am a brand ambassador of BSK literacy. I attended class in 2021.’’ Mrs Asinyen, 33 years, A Christian at Kaitegiro village Katiko, Turkana West.

We look forward to sharing more stories on the impact of this project for learners in Turkana County. To support a learner, donate through Pay bill 518100: Account: Literacy

 

 

 

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