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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

 

Nurturing Children with God’s Word

Written by BSkenya

May 5, 2020

The Bible is a very essential tool for everyone but more so to children. This is because a child’s mind easily grasps truths when he/she is young and is likely to keep it in their mind throughout his/her adult life.

 The Bible brings to life attributes of God through nature, and the many miracles He did in the past and even in our present lives. For instance, children love to see the sun, moon, stars, different animals and cannot often grasp how they came to existence.

Take for instance in John chapter 2:1-1, there was a wedding in Cana where Mary mother of Jesus was attending, and Jesus and his disciples were invited too. When Mary informed Jesus that the wine had run out, he quickly issued an instruction that water jars should be filled with water. He instantly performed a miracle and the water became wine and it was enough for the guests. When a child grasps the fact that God can change a situation instantly, they begin to develop trust in Him to provide for the small things like toys, bicycles, food, money for school fees, etc.

Children need to understand that the Bible is not just any other book. They need to get to a point where they appreciate that they need the Bible to take refuge in it, to find hope in times of fear, to seek direction in making a difficult decision, and to know how God wants them to live their lives.

 Parents need to invest in buying Bibles for their children. Luckily there are appropriate Bibles for different age groups. You can begin with Bible stories that contain pictures and minimal write-ups so that the child can see and understand that God formed the world from nothing. After this level, the child can graduate to a complete Bible with illustrations so that they can relate with the story easily and ultimately a complete Bible with other additional information e.g. maps, concordance, footnotes, study notes, and many more.

In this uncertain time, we can teach our children to depend on God by reading for them stories where God came through for his people in times of distress. Here are some uplifting verses,

 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 (ESV)

 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1(ESV)

 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe. Proverbs 18:10 (ESV)

 Bible Society of Kenya has a variety of children Bibles. Kindly visit us on shop.biblesociety-kenya.org for these and more.

 

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