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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

 

Nairobi International Book Fair 2017

Written by BSkenya

October 3, 2017

[rescue_box color=”blue” text_align=”left” width=”100%” float=”none”]Unity through books was the theme at this year’s Nairobi International Book Fair that took place at Sarit Center from 27th September to 1st October 2017.[/rescue_box]

Children from Rainbow Academy in Zimmerman  look through children Bibles during the Nairobi International Book Fair

Bible Society of Kenya participated in the book fair which is the most popular  in Africa, having been in existence for the last 20 years.

The forum brought together writers, authors, publishers, publishing house owners and printers from Africa and beyond. The event is organized by the Kenya Publishers Association, the body that brings together key stakeholders in the publishing industry in Kenya.

The expo was officially opened by the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Centum Investments, Mr. James Mworia. In his remarks, Mr. Mworia noted that publishers need to embrace technology as it makes it easy to access information both for children and adults at large. He added that through technology people are able to access information through various devices including mobile phones, tables, ipads and other devices which helps in information sharing. BSK therefore needs to embrace technology so as to ensure that many people access the Word of God.

This was a great opportunity for BSK to interact one on one with her customers as well as expound more about her products, programmes and membership. Scriptures were distributed and enquiries handled from parents, teachers, students, librarians, bookshop owners and other guests.

Mr.Charles Korir from BSK explains Bible versions to a client

Books whether creative works or factual texts serve as a reflection of the society from which the writers are drawn. It is therefore our duty to ensure that society is able to access information on issues that confront it and enhance a peaceful coexistence amongst each other.

BSK thanks all the guests who visited our stand and trust that our interaction will be even more enhanced. It is our joy to serve our customers!

 

 

 

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