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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

 

Giving Hope to Street Children

Written by BSkenya

May 15, 2020

A session to discuss alcoholism effects

Bible Society of Kenya has partnered with Love of Christ Foundation to feed street children in Grogon Market, Ngara area in Nairobi.

The feeding programme began on May 8th, 2020 out of a desire to support the vulnerable families who have been affected by the COVID 19 pandemic. The feeding is done daily from Monday to Saturday where 60-70 children get one meal per day.

The children live in the market area that is home to over 600 street children. Most of these children struggle to collect leftover food from bins, beg on the streets, and just survive a day at a time.

Most of these children are not on the streets by choice but because of circumstances including the death of parents, violence at home, poverty, or even HIV/AIDS. Street children are mostly ignored because they usually look unkempt, sniffing glue, dirty hence making it easy for them to be mistreated.

COVID 19 has made the situation even worse. “We have been sleeping hungry because the rubbish bins have become empty,” says Janet, a young teenage mother. This followed the directive by the Government to close eateries and hotels to curb the spread of the deadly virus. “When we are sick, nobody bothers about us. We ache in pain praying we do not lose a life.” Adds another.

This environment is even more challenging for young girls and women on the streets as they are exposed to a myriad of issues including early pregnancy, rape, drugs, and lack of necessities like sanitary towels.

Jesus film session

Apart from giving them food, we have shown them the Jesus film  and started Faith Comes By Hearing listening groups so that they may know that true love and hope comes from Christ. We hope that they will also be engaged in Trauma Healing sessions to help them overcome and recover from the trauma they have faced.

“It has been an enthralling fulfilling season to venture into the lives of street children and give them hope. Never in my dreams had I thought I would interact with them. The feeding, interactive sessions, and sharing the Word through Jesus Film and audio scriptures has opened my eyes to see that a small act of love can open opportunities to be a blessing to the world. That is what Jesus would do. The transformation then is inevitable.” Susan Ndiang’ui Programme Coordinator.

We thank our friends and partners who have generously given towards this initiative. May the Lord richly bless you.

 

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