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

 

Inspired to share the Gospel

Written by Joy Balusi

March 1, 2022

What role are you playing in advancing the Kingdom of God? Well, see to it that you get an answer to this and sign up for the business of making Jesus famous. Your contribution to the Great Commission is important.

Here is a contribution from one of our partners in using digital media tools to share the Good News. David Palusky is the founder of the Renew World Outreach which is a community of believers who innovatively use tech skills to ensure that Gods’ word is available to people in their heart languages across the globe. This Word is availed through audio-visual equipment developed by this team.

Birthing the idea

David and a team of missionaries visited Amazon in Peru, South America in 1998 to share God’s word with a group of people in a remote place known as Urarina. These people speak an extremely difficult-to-translate language. The missionaries discovered that these people suffered many problems including diseases and malnutrition. As they engaged on how they could help, the chief told them “Bring Me God’s Word in My Language!”

This response inspired David and his wife Stephanie to visit the Urarina New Testament Wycliffe Bible Translators and share the burden of making God’s Word available to this group of people. It was then that the idea of partnering to record the Jesus Film in the Urarina language came about. Days later, Jesus’ film was recorded in the Urarina language. David remembers one Urarina man saying, “We’ve been waiting our whole lives to hear this!”

This reception of God’s Word moved David to ask himself a question, “How can we present the Gospel to remote people and empower their native leaders to disciple their tribes? Convinced to contribute to this initiative, he left his business and fully used his talent and electrical engineering skills to develop tools to advance the Gospel in remote areas such as Urarina. In 2005, David developed a solar-powered audio/video system for presenting the Gospel to individuals and large groups without the need for electricity or internet.

The impact of these tools inspired David and his brother to begin Renew World Outreach, the sole motive being to equip the body of Christ to take the Gospel to the hard-to-reach parts of the earth.

Kenya is the latest country in Africa to receive some of these tools to help share Jesus in both audio and visual formats among the un reached and unengaged communities.

Can God use you too?

Yes! in whichever field you are in to advance his Kingdom. David says,” God has given us a responsibility to fulfill the Great Commission and He has endowed us with much potential to actualize the same.

What is your contribution to the Bible Course? Call us on 0722205843 to plug into our programmes so that we can reach our communities with God’s word.

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