Brown Girl Woke

13/06/2026

Our brothers Samoa Grassroot Studio supporting you all always ❤️🙏🏽

💙 Broken & Blessed Club 💙

Every Thursday, our young men come together to talk, laugh, support one another, and remind each other that no one has to carry their struggles alone.

Being strong doesn’t mean suffering in silence. It means having the courage to show up, speak up, and keep moving forward.

This Men’s Mental Health Month, we’re proud to create a space where our boys can be real, be heard, and know they belong.

📅 Every Thursday
📍 Broken & Blessed Club

“You can be healing and still be blessed. You can be struggling and still be worthy.”

💙🙏🏽 Groundline Builders Samoa

12/06/2026

Day 2 of the Plant Knowledge Workshop
In collaboration with Tiapapata Arts Centre & the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland | It was another beautiful day of learning for our Brown Girl Woke communications team. 🌿🪴✨

We visited the SROS Garden, where we learned more about different plants found in Samoa and their many uses. We also explored the Vailima Botanical Garden and the Arthur Whistler Memorial Garden, where we learned about Arthur Whistler’s important work as a respected botanist and his contribution to documenting Samoa’s rich flora.

We learned so much about Samoa’s native plant species and we even got to see a blue tiger butterfly that is only found in Samoa!

Today reminded us how deeply connected Samoa’s native plants are to our cultural practices, indigenous medicine, and the ways our people lived and healed before Western medicine became widely introduced.

Being able to observe nature in a conserved space allowed us to slow down, appreciate its beauty, and reflect on the importance of protecting the knowledge, plants, and environments that continue to shape who we are.

A meaningful day of learning, connection, and appreciation for the natural world around us. 🌺

12/06/2026

🌈✨Pride Week is opening in style!✨🌈

Brown Girl Woke is proud to open Pride Week with an invite-only Opening Reception & Coalition Launch — a special evening bringing together sponsors, development partners, community leaders, and invited guests.

This event marks an important milestone as we officially launch a new coalition with the Samoa Fa’afafine & Fa’atama Association and the Samoa Deaf Association, strengthening our shared commitment to inclusion, advocacy, visibility, and collaboration across Samoa.

We are excited to celebrate community, partnership, and collective action as we begin a powerful week of Pride, dialogue, and movement-building. 🌺

Pride Week Opening Reception & Coalition Launch
📍 Siva Afi, Apia
🕕 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
📅 Monday, 22nd June 2026

Proudly sponsored by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Honorary Consul of Samoa - Taimalieutu Ernest Betham.

12/06/2026

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11/06/2026

🎥 Pasifika Youth Voice – Final Snippet of the Week

Have fun this weekend Samoa, but stay safe. 🍻

And remember… don’t spend Friday and Saturday drinking, fighting, robbing, and causing drama, then turn up as an angel on Sunday. 😇😂

Be safe, look after your friends, and keep it real.

11/06/2026

🎥📸 SAMOA CIVIC MEDIA FORUM 2026

Every organisation has a story. The question is: Are we telling it ethically, accurately, and in a way that builds public trust?

Join Brown Girl Woke’s Civil Society Media Forum and learn how to:

📸 Get professional headshots for yourself and your organisation
🎥 Create a short NGO introduction video
❤️ Practice victim-centred and trauma-informed storytelling
🤝 Understand consent, safeguarding, and ethical communications
🚨 Combat misinformation and strengthen public trust
📱 Create stronger content for advocacy, donors, and social media
🌏 Connect with NGOs, journalists, youth leaders, and community partners

In an age of misinformation, how we tell stories matters.

Strong stories build trust. Ethical storytelling combats misinformation.

📅 19 June 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 SUNGO Office, Vaitele

Come dressed professionally. Leave with a headshot, a story, a video, and the skills to amplify your impact.



The Samoa Umbrella for Non-Governmental Organisations Inc - SUNGO International IDEA Women In Business Development Inc European Union in the Pacific

11/06/2026

📦❤️ HELP US GET THESE DONATIONS TO SAMOA ❤️📦

While I am here in California, our community has come together to collect over 30 boxes of donations for Samoa.

These boxes are filled with:
📚 Preschool books
✏️ School supplies
🎨 Art materials
🧸 Toys and learning resources
🩲 Adult diapers and essential care items

The challenge now is getting them home.

It will cost approximately $2,000 USD to ship these donations to Samoa. Every dollar helps us make sure these items reach the children, families, and vulnerable community members who need them most.

If you would like to support, sponsor shipping, or contribute towards freight costs, please send us a message.

Fa’afetai tele lava to everyone who has already donated items and helped pack these boxes. Together, we can turn generosity into impact. 🇼🇸❤️

Thank you again to Samoan Solutions Pacific Islander Community Partnership (PICP) inc

11/06/2026

❤️🙏🏽

For Samoa Fa’afafine Association, Pride Month is not just about the celebration of sexual and gender diversity and social inclusion. It is also about the promotion from within that, our Samoan core values and principles.

These core values and principles are embedded in our culture and faith in the context of our socio-economic, political and social justice circumstances.

As a proud fa’afafine and fa’atama community we use our cultural identity privileges to also stand by our friends and families who do identify as gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender, transexual, q***r, non binary and intersex. Their existence is most relevant.

You are Samoan. You are human.

From our cultural perspective: You are a suli. You are an heir to your family suafa matai. You are an heir to your family fanua. You have a say in your family saofaiga.

From our Christian faith perspective: You are created in the perfect image of God. During his creation, he knows exactly who you are before you were even born. He does not make mistakes as he is the God of pure and unconditional love.

From our legal perspective: Everyone is equal under the law. Everyone has the constitutional freedom of personal liberty, expression and from any discriminatory laws. S*x and gender also includes gender identify and sexual orientation.

From our Socio-economic and political perspective: You pay tax, whether you are in private or public sector. You infiltrate spaces in civil society advocacy. You are contributing most effectively to our economy and our country just like everyone else.

You are your true authentic self and you must not apologize for it. Be proud of who you are.

11/06/2026

🌺 As we close our She Builds programs at Itu o Tane and Don Bosco in Savai’i, we are reminded of something we strongly believe at Brown Girl Woke:

What is good for Upolu should also be good for Savai’i.

For three months, these incredible young women showed up, learned, led, and invested in their futures. Too often opportunities are concentrated in one place, but every young person deserves access to programs that build confidence, leadership, and life skills—regardless of which island they call home.

Fa’afetai tele lava to our students, schools, teachers, families, and supporters who made this journey possible.

This may be the end of this chapter, but it is not the end of our commitment to ensuring that girls and young women in Savai’i continue to have access to the same opportunities, resources, and investments as their peers in Upolu.

💜 When we invest in all our girls, Samoa grows stronger.

📚 Applications for She Builds 3 will open in July 2026. If your school would like to be part of the next cohort, please send us a message.

11/06/2026

PASIFIKA YOUTH VOICES

“Young people with disabilities face the same mental health struggles as everyone else — but often with fewer services, less support, and more barriers to getting help.”

A youth member of the Samoa Deaf Association asked an important question: Are disability organisations receiving mental health training and support?

This matters because many young people with disabilities experience isolation, depression, anxiety, and in some cases turn to alcohol or drugs as a way of coping.

Youth voices deserve answers. Youth voices deserve support.

Fact Check: In Samoa, mental health and addiction services remain limited, and accessible services specifically designed for young people with disabilities are still developing. Disability-inclusive mental health support is an important gap identified by many advocates.