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] with the aim of promoting social welfare, cultural development and improving the lives of workers and their families and the communities they live in. The world-famous Brazilian educator and philosopher of education, Paulo Freire, worked in SESI in Pernambuco for then years (1947–1958). During that time in SESI he served first as Director of the Division of Public Relations, Education, and Culture, and then as superintendent. The roles of SESI and the National Industrial Apprenticeships Association(SENAI) were set out in Acts 4.048, of 22 January 1942, 4.936, of 7 November 1942, 6.246, of 5 February 1944 and 9.403, of 25 June 1946. According to those bills, the roles referred to are owed by industrial establishments classified as such by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), along the lines that they are required to pay a monthly contribution for the funding of social work among industrial workers and their dependents for the setting up and maintenance of training schools.