Community Development BOKS

● BOKS is taught by highly experienced professionals who have worked many years in developing nations in humanitarian and community development roles.

● These teachers speak at an easy pace, using basic language, to make BOKS understandable to all viewers, even those with limited education and vocabulary.

● BOKS teaches many “appropriate technologies” to help overcome sickness, poverty, and malnutrition in even the poorest of developing countries.

● BOKS instructors teach from both the classroom and from the field, taking full advantage of the DVD format, to give effective real-world examples and illustrations.

● BOKS can be used by local churches, schools, and community centers to teach the principles and practices which will raise communities out of poverty, malnutrition, and sickness.

● BOKS is an excellent tool for short-term mission teams as an educational training and outreach tool.

● BOKS can be used to train mission teams for community development and humanitarian work.

● BOKS can be used by medical and dental teams involved in short term missions. As patients wait to be treated, they can watch and learn in their own language, receiving tremendous benefit, multiplying the efforts of the medical professionals in improving the health of the community.

● BOKS can be used by Church Planters to meet the physical needs of a community, opening people to evangelism.

● BOKS is designed to offer the greatest degree of flexibility possible through it’s bi-lingual format.

● The bi-lingual format makes translating BOKS quick and inexpensive compared to dubbing or sub-titling. BOKS has already been translated into four languages, with eight more in-progress.

● One version of BOKS has English with the second language muted. This allows English speaking translators to translate BOKS live into any language.

● Many countries use one “official” languages with many minor languages spoken in rural areas. Since BOKS is being put into many "official" languages, a live translator can easily translate from the official language, over the English, into one of the other languages of the country.

For example, in Mexico, Spanish is common and so the English/Spanish version can be used. However, in one area the people only speak an Indian language called "Tsental." A live translator can listen to the Spanish and speak over the English translating into "Tsental."