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

 

This is my Bible

Written by Joy Balusi

May 25, 2022

Happy faces after receiving Bibles from Bible Society of Kenya

Have you ever waited for something for a long time? This has been the story of many learners in Nakuru County who have longed for Bibles for a long period. 

Most of the learners come from low-income families where guardians barely afford 1$ per day! Affording basic needs is a luxury! Schools become a haven and comfort place for many of these pupils since they are given a meal! How then can such a guardian weigh between a Bible and a meal? 

We thank God that the Bible Society of Kenya provided Bibles and portions to the  pupils to seven schools in the County to give hope, help the children to interact with the Word of God, and anchor their lives on God and not their circumstances.

The joy in the children’s faces was unexplained, it was best expressed in a song that went like this;

This is my Bible!

I am what it says I am!

I have what it says I have!

I can do what it says I can do!

Below are some testimonies from the learners and teachers.

Students reading their New Testament Bibles

“I thank the Bible Society of Kenya for giving us Good News Bibles. With these Bibles with us, we have God everywhere.” Harmony Enoch, Grade 5, Koinange Primary School.

“I sincerely appreciate the Bible Society of Kenya for giving our learners Good News Bibles. They are barely nurtured spiritually at home. Their parents rarely go to churches, so children have no guidance at home. With a Bible in a child’s hand, a generation will change. It is a new dawn for these learners both at school and at home. We are very grateful!” Joyce Nkaduda, headteacher, Kaptebwo Primary School.

“These Bibles will help us learn about God and have the courage to do right and great things in life.’’ Dinah Akeyo, Grade 5, Koinange Primary School.

“I will forever cherish this Bible. I am so much grateful for the thought of sharing God’s word with me.’’ Hellen Opiyo, Grade 5, Nakuru West Primary School.

“You have offered us something so precious. Something so hard to acquire because we all come from humble backgrounds. Our teachers had even gotten tired of reminding us to buy but now you have come to save us. We appreciate and we will not disappoint you, especially in our performance in school.’’ Jane Wakio, Form 2, Mutarakwa Secondary School.

Our prayer is to see God’s Word in the hands of every student in every school across Kenya, especially those who are vulnerable and marginalized. We thank our partners the Bible Society of Australia and the Bible Society of Nothern Island for giving their resources as we dream together to realize this vision.

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