The Freire Institute is an organization for transformative community-based learning. In our programmes your own knowledge and life experience becomes the raw material for education. We are named after the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire whose work has inspired many social movements and educational programmes around the world. Education can be a tool for individual and community empowerment and transformation. Our approach is informal, challenging and exciting. You do not need any formal qualifications to take part, just a commitment to learning and change.