Changing lives in Bolivia

Denise Gabuzda and Chris Stotesbury write about an inspiring Quaker educational project in South America

by Denise Gabuzda and Chris Stotesbury 14th August 2015

It is easy to forget that the education of children beyond the age of eleven is relatively recent in the British Isles. Free, compulsory education up to the age of twelve was introduced only in 1899. In the late nineteenth century all children had access to a ‘primary’ education, but children in many rural regions did not have access to education beyond the age of eleven or twelve if their village was not large enough to support a secondary school.