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Whats the best way to send relief to the family back home?

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How to donate to tsunami relief operations:

Pacific Cooperation Foundation
Deposits can be made at at any Westpac branch. All the money raised will go to the Samoan Government

Red Cross
- Make a secure online donation at redcross.org.nz
- Send cheques to the Samoan Red Cross Fund, PO Box 12140, Thorndon, Wellington 6144
- Call 0900 31 100 to make an automatic $20 donation
- Make a donation at any NZ Red Cross office

ANZ bank Make a donation at any ANZ bank branch, or donate directly to the ANZ appeal account: 01 1839 0143546 00

Oxfam - Make a secure online donation at Oxfam.org.nz - Phone 0800 400 666 or make an automatic $20 donation by calling 0900 600 20

Caritas - Make a secure online donation at Caritas.org.nz
- Phone 0800 22 10 22 or make an automatic $20 donation by calling 0900 4 11 11

TEAR fund - Make a secure online donation at tearfund.co.nz
- Phone 0800 800 777 to specify Samoa the Philippines or Indonesia. You can also donate at CD and DVD stores.

Mercury Energy - Donate at mercury.co.nz
or text the word Samoa followed by the amount you wish to pledge and your Mercury account number to 515 or by calling 0800 10 18 10.
Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity is asking for help with the clean-up habitat.org.nz

Unicef Make a secure online donation unicef.org.nz
or phone on 0800 800 194

 

YOU CANT EAT PAPER MATE LOL EITHER GIVE IT TO THE CHURCHES, GOVT, RED-CROSS, FIRST AID, THEY HAV TSUNAMI RELIEF BANK TOO ....JUST DEPOSIT MONEY DEA AND GET THE RECIPT...AT LEAST YOU GOT IT IN PAPER AND TO SEE WEA ALL UR $$$ GO! LOL

HAVE A PLSNT DAY...AND GOOD NYTE :)

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The INEVITABLE - It was on ther nz news this morning - samoa govt eating and selling the aid relief given by us! The govt and there mps are only helping themselves! what a sad bunch

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Yeah, no doubt..8:50AM Tuesday Oct 27, 2009

Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is rejecting claims of tsunami aid relief rorts, blaming journalists there for making up stories of corruption and aid diversion.

Porirua deputy mayor Litea Ah Hoi, who returned from Samoa on Saturday, said she had no doubt aid was being mismanaged by the government.

As well as money donated by the public, the New Zealand and Australia governments each gave $6.18 million to the Samoan government for recovery and reconstruction efforts.

Ms Ah Hoi said not only was aid being inefficiently distributed by local leaders, but she was certain some was being sold off in shops.

"People talk about it quite openly in Samoa, in the streets and the fales, but they won't speak out publicly over it, and that's one of the stories that has been relayed, that some of the trucks have been selling off to the shops," she told The Dominion Post.

However, Mr Malielegaoi said that international aid was getting to the people who needed it.

 

Kapiti psychologist Richard Sawrey, who returned this month from a two-week volunteer stint in Samoa, said the feeling on the ground was that the government was doing a good job.

"We have seen no evidence of mismanagement of aid or funds during our work," he said.

"The local village leaders that we were working with were doing all they could to distribute wisely to the affected families."

The New Zealand Red Cross said it was confident its supplies were finding their way to those in need.

"Samoa Red Cross, like New Zealand Red Cross, is a neutral, impartial relief agency and they work as an auxiliary to government but maintain their independence," international humanitarian programmes manager Glenn Rose told Radio New Zealand.

"Now what that means is all Red Cross aid being distributed to the affected communities is being delivered and recorded by Samoa Red Cross with no intermediaries either government or non-government."

Mr Rose said anyone who knew of areas which needed support should contact Samoa Red Cross. 

Tuilaepa doesn't deposit or sign out the money.  He's the one who does the Big job.  hahahaha! He's the Big Boss.  He just tell them what to do and tell them where and what to spend the money for.  So really he cant eat money.  Its just people making up stories because they know the government are getting heaps of HELP from overseas.  So they just wondering why this bit come here and a bit there..You know what? Mind you own business hahaha! Why complain, just wait and see what our govt can do for us ...dont critize lol

DONT JUDGE OUR PRIME BY HIS LOOK..LOL,,,,,.HE MAY LOOK A LITTLE BIT FAT HEHEHEHE AT LEAST HE DOESN'T HAV DIABETIC LIKE MOST SAMOANS.....LOL

so then he wasnt very stressed when he first became pm

If our custom and culture is so great, this is where they should shine....

Correct me if I am wrong.. According to our culture ,each village is a government of its own seperated from the central government.. This village government is to be run or guided by the main chiefs selected by families of the village...We see here how important it is to have good matais running the villages affairs..
Distributions of aids can be easily done in this level and can be trace and also be account for..

If Samoans will have the roofing, lumber, and nails they can build homes very quickly through the village government ,where they can rely on each other to work as a community like their custom and culture taught. We all know what kind of building that I am talking about. We all know how to live under one roof for awhile  until we can afford or ready to build another home..We can save a lot of money this way.. The real
Samoan way.

SOIFUA

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Foa’i le silia ma le $26,000 i le Sui Palemia

E $26,129.50 le siaki tupe sa taua’aoina atu ai e nisi o alo pepese i le Sui Palemia Misa Telefoni i le aso ananafi.
O lenei seleni sa maua mai i se sa’iliga seleni (telethon) sa fa’afoeina e nisi ua lauiloa i le taleni o le musika, e fesoasoani ai i tagata na a’afia i le tsumani.
O lenei fa’amoemoe sa tu’ufa’atasia e le Pulega o le TV3, le afioga i le ali’i Pule Sili, Hon HJ Keil.

O le susuga i le Fa’afeagaiga ia Falefatu Enari, sa fai ma sui o nei tamali’i pepese e tu’uina atu lenei siaki tupe i le Sui Palemia.
Sa ia ta’ua o le agaga autu na a’e ai se tofa ia i latou nei, e le gata i le fia fesoasoani mo e na a’afia i le galulolo, ae avatu ai fo’i ma se fa’amafanafanaga mo’i latou ne’i.

Na saunoa Falefatu, o lenei sa’iliga seleni mo le fa’aleleia o mea sa fa’aleagaina.
Na ia fa’afetaia foi i latou uma sa lima foa’i, aemaise o Kamupani sa foai fua le fesoasoani, e pei o le Samoatel, i le fa’aaogaina fua o a latou telefoni, o le Falepue pese o le Winn i Alafua, aemaise le Pulega a le TV3.

Na fa’aalia le agaga fiafia ma le fa’afetai o le afioga ia Misa Telefoni e tusa ai o lenei foa’i taua.
Sa ia saunoa “ E le aoa’ia e laupua tamafaiga peita’i e ono avea le tu’ufa’atasiga o a outou taleni ma fa’atasiga lelei,ma e ono pueina se tou lipine tu’ufa’atasi o pesepesega”.

Na ia saunoa fo’i, o se tulaga lelei fo’i lea ua mafai ona toe fa’atasia ai latou.
Ua fa’aalia ai foi le naunau o le atunu’u i itu tau musika.
Na ta’ua, o lenei seleni tupe ua alagatatau ona toe fa’aleleia ai mea ua fa’aleagaina, ma toe si’itia ai le atinae o aiga i nu’u i tua.

I lenei lava sauniga sa tau’aaoina atu ai e le susuga ia Falefatu le kopi o le latou CD ua fa’aigoaina (Hope) po’o le fa’amoemoe.
O tupe e maua ai, o le a tu’uina atu i le malo e fesoasoani ai i ana atinae.
O tamali’i uma nei sa auai i lenei sailiga seleni, e aofia ai, Fa’anana Jerome Grey, Fa’asavalu Dave Parker, Falefatu Enari, Muliagatele Lagaaia Mamaia, Mac Laban To’omalatai, Tuiletufuga Geroge, Mailo Ben Vai ma Funefeai Oliva Vaai.

Malo Fou na ave se mea ale Tou Aiga ile Tsunami? hahaha!