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

 

Learners in Turkana Equipped

Written by Joy Balusi

November 28, 2022

Learners determined to learn

We thank God for a successful adult literacy learner’s assessment exercise that took place in eight centres in Turkana County from 16th – 19th November 2022. 

The aim of the assessment was to check the learner’s abilities to read and write fluently after attending classes for six months. In addition, a comparison was done to gauge the learners’ growth levels since the beginning of classes to find out the levels of improvement.

The assessment also helps teachers to evaluate their teaching approaches as per the laid-out guidelines. It identifies learners who are not able to read and write, so that they can get a second chance in the next year’s cohort to perfect their literacy skills.

Learners who have qualified are encouraged to continue with the post-literacy activities where they are exposed to more literature materials such as short stories reading booklets among many others to enhance the culture of reading.

Out of 522 enrolled adult learners, 309 learners can read and write, and are scheduled to graduate. Below are some testimonies as shared by the learners.

‘’I thank God now I can read. The BSK adult literacy programme is good and very interesting compared to others since it is taught in mother tongue. I can now relate my reading and speaking on daily basis. I hope to continue even after this program.’’ Mr Daniel Ekal.

I have perfected the art of pronouncing sounds, being aware of how words connect. My teachers always give me a chance to practise on the blackboard and share my skills with fellow learners. I have gained confidence even in standing in front of others to talk about the importance of education.’’ Ms Sarah Lojao.

The BSK team also met the Turkana County officer of Adult Education and laid out partnership plans for 2023 on ways to strengthen the programme in the County. We are glad to see the progress that has taken place in the lives of the learners. We trust that the skills they have learnt will help them to improve their standards of living.

 

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