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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

 

Goodwill Ambassadors for Revised Maasai Bible Appointed 

Written by BSkenya

October 25, 2018

Kajiado County Speaker Hon.Johnson Osoi and Bishop Joshua Ntitika (right)pose for a photo by the Genera Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki. Looking on is Rev.William Matolo in charge of Church Relations

Bible Society of Kenya has appointed Kajiado County Assembly Speaker Hon. Johnson Osoi and Bishop Joshua Ntitika to be Goodwill Ambassadors for the Revised Maasai Bible.

The Revised Maasai Bible was launched on August 11th 2018 at the Narok Stadium and was translated in partnership with the Maasai religious leaders. The revised Bible is easy to read and understand hence there is need to make it easily accessible to the users.

The Bible Society of Kenya Chief Executive Officer Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki, thanked Hon. Osoi and Bishop Ntitika for accepting to be Goodwill Ambassadors for the Bible. She urged the County Government of Kajiado to embrace the Word of God in their decision making and to help young children to access the Bible from a young age as it will give them direction in life. Mrs. Muriuki added that Bible Society of Kenya runs programmes that encourage Bible use at all ages with emphasis on the Programme for Pastoral Instruction which is run every week in primary schools to teach pupils the Word of God.

Mrs. Muriuki further noted that people should embrace their local languages as it promotes diversity and it gives us identity as Africans. She reiterated that when one reads the Bible in their local language it reaches their heart and they are able to relate with it and apply it in their day to day lives.

Hon. Osoi said that he was humbled to be chosen in such a noble position of promoting God’s Word and thanked the Society for such an honour. He quoted the Words of Paul in Colossians 3:23 which says; whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. He pledged that he will work closely with Bishop Ntitika in spreading the good news about the Bible in all the areas where the maa speakers are.

Hon.Osoi added that he will join Bible Society of Kenya together with his County Assembly so as to support the work of BSK which is to avail Scriptures to all in languages they best understand.

 

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