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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

 

The Integrity of the Righteous Shall Guide Them

Written by BSkenya

September 18, 2019

The holy book and even the ordinary world has numerous examples of people who have stood tall and held their heads high despite lots of temptations to compromise their integrity. Despite being in a vulnerable position at the beginning, Joseph distinguished himself as a man who could not compromise his chastity and integrity for the pleasures of the world by rejecting Potiphar’s wife and her advances and ending up in prison instead, Genesis 39:1-6. And even after going on to occupy an influential position in Egypt, he did not use the position to enrich himself or compromise his position.

We learn not only from these biblical reflections but also through real-life experiences that integrity and righteousness outweigh evil deeds. More often we as Christians find ourselves in compromising situations and go ahead doing wrong because we ‘did not have a choice.’ The truth of the matter is that fear of the consequences of doing good overpowers our integrity. It is also said that sometimes we do not engage in vices like corruption or immorality because the opportunity has never presented itself. In case we find ourselves in such situations, can we stand up and be counted like Joseph? Do we stay away from sin because we are convicted it is wrong or because someone is watching?

1st Peter 3:16 reminds us that; having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. A good conscience makes a Christian walk in firm strides and with the confidence of a saint without having to look over his shoulders or running away from the shadow.

As Christians, we should stand in the forefront by shunning situations that can compromise our faith and help others deal with challenges of integrity. The privilege of being a Christian is that the holy spirit is our permanent companion and will always get us out of trouble if we invite him in our life. Better still we should arm ourselves with the word of God. Proverbs 11:3 encourages us to be guided by our integrity and not be destroyed by perversion. It is only by always being aware of our responsibilities and the fact of our existence on earth to serve God and humanity that we can separate ourselves from acts that can compromise our integrity.

By: James Fredrick Ochieng, BSK Life member

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