COMISSÃO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO URBANO

- Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. And we want to appreciate A warm welcome. I would like to recognize the reception calorously. We have always taken Brazil as one of our homes as South Africans. As African Americans like to clarify that they consider Brazil as one of their own houses. because Brazil and South Africa are sharing many similarities. similarities. Maybe the only difference is that in South Africa we drive on the right and in Brazil you drive on the left. We are here as a portfolio committee of human settlements We are here as part of the Committee of and the house of the land. which is mandated to do oversight over the provisioning of human settlements to our people in South Africa. as actions in terms of housing and in all the Assentments in Africa. and we chose to come to Brazil to learn more about how they go about providing human settlements. So they chose Brazil to learn more about how Brazil has done with the issue of the And the housing. How do they improve informal settlements. how, in Brazil, the assentments are promoted and improved. How do they turn abandoned buildings into homes for the families. How that is transformed as habitationes that are not used in housing I'm more than you. This is a study tool for us because we want to know more about the good practices in Brazil. I would like to know the good practices that are made in Brazil. How do you finance human settlements? That's what we want to know more about. I would like to know more about how the assentments are made in Brazil. and organizations. and we are told since Lula came into power. the issue of human settlement. is high on his priority as a president. We were informed that since the President Lula took the seat this has become a priority in your government. So we'd really appreciate getting more information. We are here to learn. Nothing else. So we are very happy with the opportunity, we are here to learn. And nothing else. We really want to thank you. I thank you Albert