Our Programs

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

 

Hope for children through Gods Word

Written by Joy Balusi

March 24, 2021

When a dark cloud is lifted and a glimmer of hope blinks in childrens’ lives, they cannot hide it.

Keenly searching through the Scriptures

It was a joyous one week of distributing Bibles to some of the most impoverished children in Trans Nzoia and Kitui Counties. From 15th to 19th March 2021, the Bible Society of Kenya distributed Bibles to 20 marginalized schools in the two Counties and the joy exhibited by the children was immense.

Some of these schools host children from poor families while others reside in slum areas and scheme settlement areas. For some, their parents do not recognize the importance of education. As such, they will only allow their children to go to school on some days of the week and the rest? Stay home and take care of the younger ones. In the process, some girls end up pregnant as early as 12 years and they must pause their studies and wait for a later date to get back to school. Worse still, the children may drop out of school for some time to hunt for jobs. They do this to support their parents and get food on the table because they have a hand-to-mouth kind of existence.

We are glad to receive this precious gifts- The Bible

How does such a parent think about a Bible for her child? The church is barely talked about! The BSK team took time to share words of life, hope, and purpose with these children and crowned the distribution with prayers.

It is such a privilege to be a blessing to such children at such a time as this! We are so grateful for our partners in this mission!

Here are some testimonies as shared

I am happy to receive a Bible today. I will read it when going to Church. This Bible will also help me in my CRE lessons. Thank you, Bible Society of Kenya, for this precious gift. Stella Baraza, Naisambu Secondary School.

I am glad to receive this Bible. My parents could not afford to buy me one. I promise to read it so that I may follow the ways of God. I will read this Bible with my friends as we study CRE. Thank you very much BSK. Hilda Nelima, Kibagenge Primary School.

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children. Isaiah 54:13(ESV)

 

 

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