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Claudia Nieto:
Q: In which year did you graduate from the school?
A: Prom 1968
Q: Did you like studying at the Gimnasio Femenino?
A: Of course, it seems to her that the school train her in the good things that she is, for example, her social work career is to help people and she learned that in school, that you have to help everyone, the school taught her many values that are important as faith in God, how to be correct, friendship, different stages of your life.
Q: What did you study?
A: Social Work at the Javeriana University.
Q:Why did you choose that career?
A: She chose that career because she always liked helping people and with that social work career it was useful for her to learn how to help; but she worked as a social worker very little she worked all her life in schools she worked 10 years in the Gimnasio Moderno and also in a kinder garden.
Q:What did the Gimnasio Femenino give you that allowed you to develop your profession?
A: Respect for others.
Q:How do you think reading promotes women's rights?
A: Reading promotes the women rights because it helps us to have better knowledge, to see how different people live, through reading we can see that there are women who live in terrible conditions and that awakens our desire to do something for them.
Q: How do you think that the Gimnasio Femenino today promotes women's rights?
A: She believes that one of the most important ways in which the school promotes the women rights is always respecting girls, teaching them to respect each other and that other people respect them.