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

 

Thriving After Trauma

Written by Joy Balusi

March 25, 2021

We are living in unprecedented times occasioned by the COVID 19 pandemic and other life’s challenges that we are sometimes not in control of. However, there is a ray of hope, we can put our trust in God who is a present help in time of our need.

We have continued to reach out to people who have undergone traumatizing experiences in life through our Bible-based trauma healing programme. We have conducted trauma healing sessions in Churches, schools, and other groups within the Community. We have done both virtual and physical Classic Initial training and Healing sessions where we reached 372 people since the year began.

Testimonies 

“I am so excited that my team of pastors and I have had a chance to go through this training. The week has been full of healing sessions, most of us did not know we had heart wounds from the post-election violence experience in 2008. We have started the healing journey. For me, the climax of the session was Taking the pain to the cross. It was so real for me and a new experience altogether. We are so grateful to Bible Society and we will organize more healing sessions for our teams.” Bishop John Mugo, Director, GOBIT Pastors Fellowship.

“I would say this is a miracle to me and a unique way of God to heal me. This has come when I am mourning the loss of my daughter, who died mysteriously in February while at school. It has been very hard for me and I have been asking God if he cares. I have almost doubted God until this week. I feel so helped in my grieving journey, strengthened in my faith that God still loves me despite what has happened. I now feel I have the knowledge I needed to go through this season in my life. The lesson on forgiveness has helped me to forgive the school and the doctors. I thank God and the facilitators for this healing session”, Anne Munyao, Nanyuki.

 Trauma Healing continues to be one of the avenues to bring healing and restore hope in people’s lives. We will continue to reach out to more people in our communities so that they may regain hope for life through God’s word.

 

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