Luísa Mahin Scholarship
The whole Gold plan. Free of charge.
For Black women from all over Brazil living in peripheries, favelas, quilombos, rural areas or Indigenous territories. No card, no proof, no test. You apply in five minutes and a person on the team reads your application.
What the scholarship unlocks
- Feedback on what you write and say, in every lesson
- A live group class every week, with a teacher
- Voice conversations with IA De Quebra and pronunciation scores
- No charge later: no card needed, and it never turns into a paid subscription
Why this name
Luísa Mahin kept the word moving.
Luísa Mahin was an African woman from the Costa da Mina who lived in Salvador in the early 19th century. Free, she worked as a street vendor. She was arrested more than once on suspicion of plotting uprisings against slavery, in the Bahia of the Malê Revolt (1835) and the Sabinada (1837).
Her son, Luís Gama, was sold into slavery by his own father at age 10. He learned to read at 17, won his freedom and became a lawyer without a degree: with words and the law, he freed hundreds of people. Much of what we know about her comes from what he wrote.
That's why the scholarship carries her name. Here, learning a language is the same gesture: words as a tool to open doors. Every scholar studies with the whole Gold plan — and carries that name along.
In 2019, Luísa Mahin was entered into Brazil's Book of the Heroes and Heroines of the Homeland (Law 13.816). Historians still debate details of her life; here we tell only what holds up.
How to apply, in 4 steps
Create your account
Just your email. You get a sign-in link, no password.
Answer three questions
Gender, race and territory. It's self-declared: your word counts, no proof needed.
Tell us where you're from
A few lines, your way: your neighborhood, your story, why you want to study. It's not an exam essay.
The team reads and unlocks
A person reads every application, in order of arrival. Once approved, the Gold plan switches on in your account.
Your application
While you wait for the answer
The courses are already free for everyone. Start now: your progress is saved and, once the scholarship is approved, feedback and the live class arrive in the same account.