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 in His Word

Written by Joy Balusi

March 18, 2022

Sharing God’s word in the streets

Jesus said faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains. Faith comes by hearing and by hearing the word of God. 

This month we held a successful Faith Comes By Hearing monitoring trip in Kisii and Nyamira Counties. We are happy to see the impact in people’s lives through audio Bibles. From the streets to homes and prisons, the narrative is that of growth in the Word of God.

We received testimonies that made our hearts glad. There was one lady who was in prison for killing her husband. She admitted that her anger issues led her to lose her freedom. However, the audio Bible has encouraged her and helped her learn to manage her anger. Another lady who was sentenced to life imprisonment admitted that the audio Bible is what gives her hope to continue living.

A mother of 13, who is 107 years, can’t hide the joy of the Lord in her. She rejoices every day knowing that her life is in the hands of the Lord. Her verse of the day is always John 14:6, ‘Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’

We couldn’t leave without showing Jesus Film in the streets of Kisii. We had overwhelming joy as we saw many people engaging in the Word.

If you are a Church, prison, hospital, and home care for the elderly you qualify to be part of the Faith Comes by Hearing program. Get in touch with through 0722205843 to participate in this life changing programme.

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