Brazilian senators visits "Brazil House"

Accra, May 20, GNA - The Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood on Tuesday accompanied a four-member delegation from the Brazilian Senate Committee for External Relations and National Defence to the "Brazil House" at Tabon, in Accra.

The visit, according to the delegation was to strengthen the relationship between the people of Brazil and Tabon, which had existed for a long tine. History has it that the people of Tabon in Ga Mashie trace their roots from the freed black slaves who migrated from Bahia in Brazil to the Gold Coast in 1836 where they settled among other Ga communities along the coast.

The Tabons were men and women who were returning to their ancestral home after working very hard in Brazil and were determined to rebuild their lives in freedom. They mastered in handicraft techniques, mainly jewelry work as well as tailoring and local architecture. Mr Heraclito Fortes, Chairman of the Brazilian Senate Committee for External Relations and National Defence said the Brazilian government would revise the previous scholarship fund set up for the Tabon people to enable about 40 of the youth from the area to study in Brazil. He said the previous scholarship scheme failed to achieve its aim because it was fee paying and most people from the area could not afford it.