07/06/2026
FA’AFETAI TELE LAVA!
What a beautiful day of celebration, culture, connection, and community 🇼🇸
On behalf of the Aiga Samoa Association, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who helped make our Samoa Independence Day Celebration such a special success✨🙏🏽
To our major sponsors, City of Moreton Bay and Refocus, thank you for believing in our vision and helping us create a space where our culture, language, and heritage could be celebrated and shared!
To all of our sponsors, contributors, donors, and supporters, your generosity and willingness to give made a huge difference. Every contribution, big or small, helped bring this event to life.
To our vendors, thank you for sharing your businesses, time, gifts talents, and delicious food with our community.
To our performers, DJ, church and community groups, thank you for filling the day with the pride, beauty, and spirit of Samoa.
To our volunteers, committee members, youth, and families who worked tirelessly behind the scenes before, during, and after the event, we are incredibly grateful for your service and dedication.
And finally, to everyone who came along to celebrate with us — thank you. Seeing our community come together, reconnect with old friends, make new ones, and proudly celebrate our independence is what makes all the hard work worthwhile.
This year’s Samoa Language Week theme, “‘E afua mai i mauga tetele manuia o le nu’u,” was brought to life yesterday through the service, generosity, and spirit of our community. Fa’afetai tele lava to all who helped make it possible.
God bless you and your families.
