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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

 

Watching Jesus Story

Written by Joy Balusi

May 25, 2021

Jesus film watching session

Bible Society of Kenya camped in Loita Hills between 17th – 21st May 2021 to show the Jesus Film and Walking with Jesus film to the Maasai-speaking community in Narok South. A total of 586 people were reached with the good news and we thank God for the opportunity to spread the word to this community.

Adults and children watched the film with excitement. For some, it was the first time they heard God speaking the Maasai language in a film! It was fulfilling as we sowed seeds of peace, hope, joy, and love that can only be found in God’s Word.

120 Oltarakwai Primary School learners were among the team that watched the Jesus Film in the Kiswahili language. It is the only school around the Loita Hills area. Parents are dependent on teachers not only in educating their children but also in the teaching of the Word since they do not know a lot about Enkai-God. Rarely will these children go to Church since they herd when they are not in school.

Amidst their normal learning, Jesus Visited them with hope through the Jesus Film in the Kiswahili language. The excitement in the children was evident. They have never seen the “Cinema ya Yesu” as they call it. A mixture of hope, eagerness, expression of joy, and a kind of calmness could be seen on their faces as they watched this film.

Below are some testimonies as shared

You have blessed these children today. They will live to remember this film! Thank you for remembering the forgotten!” Teacher Isaac.

“Many people will be transformed through this Film. They are in the dark hole but will get out through this word of God especially in their heart language.” Mr. Waithaka.

 “With the Maasai Jesus Film and Bible downloads in my phone, I can easily share the Word of God through Bluetooth and Whatsapp. This is will be a great tool for evangelism! Am in awe of technology.” Pastor Elijah, Global Revival Church, Loita Hills, Narok South.

This successful mission was through the partnership of the Bible Society of Kenya with The World Concern and various Churches in the region. Indeed God’s word transforms communities!

 

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