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

 

Machakos Prayer Breakfast

Written by BSK

July 28, 2023

The Bible Society of Kenya’s Machakos branch held a prayer breakfast meeting on 27th July 2023. The event brought together brethren from different denominations for a moment of fellowship and prayer. It was a gathering filled with faith, unity, and a shared desire to uplift the nation.

Bible Society of Kenya operates through branches that help us to reach the grassroots levels. Every branch has a management team that reports to the head office and carries out BSK mandate in their regions.

Members of the Bible Society of Kenya Machakos branch, along with clergy and community members from various Churches convened at the All-Souls Cathedral, Machakos town to pray for the nation, the Church and for Bible work in the Country.

The meeting commenced with a heartfelt welcome and a call to prayer. Members took turns to pray for our beloved nation, Kenya, seeking divine guidance, peace, and prosperity for all its citizens. The members also fervently lifted their voices, asking for blessings upon the organization’s efforts to distribute Bibles and promote the use of the Bible across the Country. They prayed for the success of BSK’s mission, that it may continue to touch the lives of countless individuals and bring them closer to God.

With hearts filled with empathy the attendees prayed for the Church in Kenya to be united among the various denominations, for the leaders to be guided by wisdom, and for the congregations to be strengthened in their faith.

The General Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki talked about BSK’s programmes and encouraged the participants to be actively involved in implementation of the Society’s programmes as they will benefit the community in Machakos. We thank God for a successful meeting.

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