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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

 

There’s Hope for the Broken Hearted

Written by BSkenya

January 25, 2019

We all wake up every morning hopeful that the day will go according to plan. When evening comes we say “goodnight, see you tomorrow.” Then we go to sleep having made plans for the next day. So what if one day things didn’t go as planned?

January 15th 2019 began as a normal day, people reported to work in the morning, meetings set and schedules set for the day. It seemed like the day was going fine when suddenly a loud explosion was heard at Dusit D2 Hotel in Westlands, Nairobi.

Jane who works at Konza Technopolis Development Authority hosted in Dusit hotel had gone to work normally to hold a scheduled meeting with her colleagues. As they were settling in to begin their meeting, they heard a loud bang that sounded like an explosion but they were not sure what was happening. Shortly after that the explosions intensified. On peeping through the windows they noticed people running helter skelter and the loud blasts continued. Everyone had to scatter and try to find their way out of the building and that was the story of many Kenyans who were either working at Dusit D2 building, doing business transactions or in the environs.

Ms. Sena Chabari, a trauma healing counselor from Bible Society of Kenya was present at the scene offering counselling services to the affected. She not only offered words of encouragement, she went an extra mile to massage the feet of the affected. As much her leg was hurt and limping she felt the terror survivors needed more encouragement than herself. She was grateful that she could at least walk while others had lost their lives or fighting for their lives in hospital. The trauma counselors offered encouragement to many people who were so depressed and sad after the incidence.

Unfortunately, the sad reality of today is that there are those who will stop at nothing but to bring chaos to the world. Sadly they succeed sometimes. In the darkness, however, we must not forget there is always hope and light at the end of the tunnel. Psalm 147:3 says He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. Our encouragement comes from the Word of God which is true and timeless.

Though 21 people lost their lives and scores injured, we continue to put out hope in God who knows everything.

May the Lord of all comfort grant peace to the families and friends of those who were affected in one way or another. Let us continue to uphold each other in prayer and look out for opportunities to be of help and comfort to our neighbors.

Let’ be encouraged to know that nothing shall separate us from the love of Christ. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? (Romans 8:28)

 

 

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