A Century of Masonic Social Action: The case of Talca, Chile (1911-2010)

Abstract

Masonry makes the nineteenth-century speech of modernity and progress as its own, which projects into the society, in this case the city of Talca, Chile.

From here, concerned with the situation of abandon that many children were living and the lack of appropriate education for laborers and uneducated, it creates entities for popular instruction; childhood assistance, supports public service institutions and tries to position laicism. 

This work has the intention to give its appropriate value to those initiatives, which were part of a social assistance action manner that shows a deceleration after the political crisis of 1973.