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

 

God Speaks Ateso Language

Written by Joy Balusi

November 10, 2022

The Ateso community were excited to receive their first-ever audio Bible on October 14th, 2021 at Amagoro in Busia County.

There was tangible excitement and anticipation by the Ateso people as they eagerly awaited the launch of this Bible. The colorful event was graced by Church leaders from different denominations in Amagoro together with the Bible Society of Kenya team who were all elated to witness the great occasion.

About the Teso People

The Ateso are a Nilotic community found in Western Kenya, Busia, and Bungoma County. They speak the Iteso language and are located both in Kenya and Uganda. This community received its New Testament Bible in March 2021. The complete Bible translation is ongoing.

It was a great blessing for them to receive the audio format of the Bible in their heart language. The audio Bible has many advantages including portability which allows the user to carry and listen even when engaged in other activities. Another advantage is that if one cannot read, he/she can listen to the word, which contributes to a deeper knowledge of the word of God.

The General Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki who was present at the event urged the guests to keep interacting with the word of God and share it with those who have not heard the good news. The community appreciated the Bible Society of Kenya for availing the audio Bibles noting that it will be a great tool of evangelism and will help them grow spiritually.

We thank God that through the Faith Comes By Hearing program, we can avail the word to different parts of the country in languages that people understand best. We have received amazing testimonies from beneficiaries of audio Bibles and look forward to seeing transformation in the Ateso community.

To participate in the Faith Comes By Hearing, call 0722205843 or email info@biblesociety-kenya.org.

 

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