Ruths and Naomis

Effective Compassion: Jobs program offers women one-on-one mentoring | Kathleen Thorne

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Noses scrunched, eyes squinted, the four women stared at the sheets of paper in front of them. One woman with waist-long blonde hair cupped her face in her hands and shook her head, puzzled.

Of different ages and races, the women meet for two hours each Thursday in a classroom filled with the smell of brewing coffee and the flicker of a fluorescent light in the corner. Instructors at the Christian Women's Job Corps (CWJC) in Nashville drill them in reading, math, and computer skills in preparation for GED exams.

The CWJC assignment this week: Mark the unfamiliar words in a brief biography of Harriet Tubman. The sentence, a quotation from Tubman, read "They had to go through ordie."

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