The Foundation for Self-Discovery and Development (FSDD) is an Egyptian non-profit organization registered under the Ministry of Social Solidarity that works in regenerative living and learning by promoting popular education, conducting critical and applied research, weaving local and global networks to create alternative education imaginaries, and community organizing. FSDD aims to foster an environment that enables critical inquiry, self-reflection, and civic engagement among a diverse pool of learners, from diverse walks of life, host a scholarly cooperative to amplify, embody and co-create critical and popular knowledge, and create spaces for practicing new visions of the world.

We aim to:

• Foster an environment for critical inquiry and civic engagement among learners. 

• Host a scholarly cooperative to amplify and co-create critical and popular knowledge. 

• Create spaces for practicing new visions of regenerative living and being.

• Weave networks around creating alternative education imaginaries and regenerative ways of living.