Presenting the funds raised to the JVS are Walta Yoseph, GED tutor, and Marco Wilkinson, Community Service Work-Study Coordinator for Oberlin College’s Bonner Center for Service and Learning.

March 3, 2010 -- Kailey Kawolics and Walta Yoseph were busy making homemade soup this past winter. Their efforts in the kitchen will pay for the GED test fees for three students attending ABLE/GED classes at the JVS Adult Career Center. Walta and Kailey are adult literacy tutors for the JVS ABLE/GED classes. They work through Oberlin College's Bonner Center for Service and Learning.

When Kailey and Walta learned that test fee waivers for adult students taking the Official GED Test were eliminated by the state this year, they were concerned for the financial hardship this might create for some GED students. In the past, many GED students earned a test fee waiver by passing the Official GED Practice Test.

Kailey and Walta raised their concerns at a Bonner Center for Service and Learning meeting and received enthusiastic support from the Bonner Center to hold a fundraiser. Kailey and Walta sold the soup at the Alternative Gift Fair in Oberlin and around campus to students.

A drawing will be held at the end of April, and three lucky students will be able to pay their GED test fees from the generous efforts of their tutors.