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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

 

Raising Funds to Avail Bibles to Children  

Written by Joy Balusi

October 6, 2023

The Bible Society of Kenya held a successful fundraising dinner on October 6th, 2023, to raise funds for children in marginalized areas to access the Bible.

 

The evening began with a welcome from the Bible Society of Kenya General Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Muriuki, who welcomed the guests and thanked them for their support for Bible work that has helped the Society to avail Bibles to many people. She added that the dinner aimed at raising funds to help children in marginalized children Bibles.

 

Mrs. Muriuki highlighted that Kenya has approximately 16 million school-going children, most of whom have never owned or cannot afford a Bible. She added that the Society reaches approximately 10,000 children from low-income families annually.

 

She challenged the guests to join the Society in availing Bibles to most of the children in the country who have not had a chance to discover God’s love and hope found in the Bible. In addition, the Bible is the main text they use for Christian Religious Education (CRE) in school.

 

The Chief Guest Speaker Rev. Joseph Obwanda quoted Prov 10:22 which says train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it. He reiterated that there needs to be an environment where our children learn God’s word. He added that children should be exposed to the Bible as it will provide them with a vision, a template of reference and the truth upon which they can stand. 

 

He encouraged the guests to consider giving towards this noble course that will impact future generations. Further, he remarked that our young people need to be grounded in the Word so that they may not be misled by the many issues that they are exposed to in this current age.

 

The Head Of Business Development and Programmes Mr. Thomas Tharao thanked the guests for their attendance and support noting that the pledges and donations made would make a real difference in the lives of children around the world.

 

To support this initiative, donate through Pay bill 518100: Account: Marginalized

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