The changes of the Educational Reform are just being put into practice, which now considers women suitable for high school study.
It is the year 1907 and in Loja there are no secondary schools for women. And surely in that task, her sensitivity, deeply impacted, determined the awakening of her vocation towards medicine, through whose study, over time, she would perform great feats.Ĭonversing with his mother and brother, one night he told them that he wanted to be a high school graduate because I dreamed of being a doctor so that she could relieve and heal the suffering, especially to the poor who have no protection. For exemplary use She was chosen as a nursing assistant to help the nuns in caring for the sick at the Hospital de la Caridad, which operated at the back of the same college. Then he would continue primary education at the La Inmaculada school, run by nuns of La Caridad. The role of womenĪs Matilde grew up, it was her mother and her older brother, Antonio, a young musician who served as church organist, who took care to teach her to read and write. Loja was by then a secluded and stately city with a population that fluctuated between 10,000 and 12,000 inhabitants, whose elites lived proud of their past and their ancient traditions. Born in the city of Loja (1889), In the bosom of a modest home and orphaned of a father, she grew up surrounded by the affection and care of her mother and older brothers, at the height of the time when the struggles between liberals and conservatives were vying for power.