Industrial Social Services

"SESI" redirects here. For the ambient ionization technique, see Secondary electrospray ionization.
The president of the National Council of SESI, Jair Meneguelli, speaks during the launch of Project Caju in 2007.
Education Minister Fernando Haddad, next to the symbol of the project, Sesinho

The Brazilian Industrial Social Services (Serviço Social da Indústria, SESI in Portuguese) is a private Brazilian not-for-profit institution that operates throughout the country. It was set up on July 1, 1946[1] stating its aim to be "promoting social welfare, cultural development and improving the lives of workers and their families and the communities they live in".

Paulo Freire worked in SESI in Pernambuco from 1947 to 1958. During that time in SESI he served first as Director of the Division of Public Relations, Education, and Culture, and then as superintendent.[2]

  1. ^ SESI. "História do SESI - O que é o SESI" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
  2. ^ Darder, Antonia (2018) The Students Guide to Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. London & New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 8–9.