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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

 

OUR CUSTOMERS OUR HEROES

Written by BSkenya

October 12, 2018

BSK team pose for a photo after celebrating customer service week

Bible Society of Kenya took part in 2018 Customer Service week celebration, a week that is celebrated every first week of October by all institutions and organizations that acknowledge the importance of customer service in the growth, flourishing and smooth running of organizations. During the customer service week, organizations appreciate both their internal and external customers and reminds customers of their commitment to providing exemplary customer experience. This year’s customer service week theme was ‘Sustaining Customer Experience Excellence’.

Different activities were held to mark the week and some of the activities that took place included: rewarding a customer service champion of the year that members of staff took part in nominating, random appreciation calls to customers, giving away pens to walk-in customers, sending out appreciation texts to customers and mugs to selected customers, sharing Happy Customer Service Week messages to members and to the public through the social media platforms.

On the internal customer front, BSK staff participated in a treasure hunt that had a price tag for the winner. Two members of staff won the treasure hunt which was aimed at creating awareness on the importance of paying keen attention to the working environment and especially taking time to check the notice board. Staff also engaged in a Bible trivia session where Bible questions were asked and the staff that got the most questions right was awarded. There was an engagement session where staff expressed their understanding of customer service and habits that made it hard to provide quality services to each other. Staff made a renewed commitment to work towards providing and sustaining customer experience excellence.

The activities carried out during the week were aimed at enabling staff to appreciate each other and raising the standards of service, instill a team spirit. To wrap up the customer service week, staff were treated to customized cupcakes and thereafter a moment of recording the memories of the event though photos.

The BSK management thanks everyone who made this year’s customer service memorable!

 

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