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

 

Leading young

Written by Joy Balusi

April 26, 2021

Bible Society of Kenya continues to empower young leaders through the Africa Biblical leadership initiative.

In 2020 the sessions were held virtually, and we managed to train 126 youth. The online space enabled us to reach many youth Countrywide and we are glad that youth are taking on leadership roles in different sectors.

Through this training, youth are mentored in different topics including Self-awareness, Leadership skills, Public speaking, Personal branding, Good governance, Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Wellness are being undertaken and this is crowned by Community Service.

Here are some amazing testimonies from the ABLI 2020 class

“ABLI has grown my passion for God’s people and equipped me to be more relevant and efficient as a leader” Agnes Mutethya, ABLI 2020 graduand.

ABLI has made me understand many aspects of leadership and professionalism, leading with Emotional intelligence and using storytelling skills to influence people. I feel empowered as a leader. Emmanuel Osano, ABLI 2020 graduand.

After six months of training, the mentees are normally attached to mentors who help them grow in their leadership journey. We desire that the youth shall inspire ethical leadership in their spheres of influence and their community at large.

We are currently recruiting young people to join this life-transforming programme. See the poster below for more details.

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