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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office website has been amended today to advise against all but essential travel to Samoa until further notice.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office website has been amended today to advise against all but essential travel to Samoa until further notice.
Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa, and the smaller American Samoa, a US territory, make up the Samoan Islands group with a combined population of nearly 250,000.
The islands are heavily reliant on tourism, which has overtaken agriculture as the dominant contributor to GDP at 25 per cent, generating over $116.5 million (£75 million).
The number of visitors to Samoa reached 122,000, with the majority of tourists coming from Australia and New Zealand, and less than 10 per cent from Britain.
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Fifteen years ago, Vainuupo Avegalio, or “AV” as he likes to be called, left the small Samoan Islands village he called home to join the U.S. Army.
He served in the military for 12 years before being honorably discharged due to the post traumatic stress disorder he developed in combat.
After retiring from the Army, AV found that channeling his pain and trauma into art was incredibly healing. He became an amateur poet and visual artist who performs readings and holds workshops all around the U.S.
Since then, he has made it his life’s work to use art therapy to help first responders, other veterans with PTSD, at-risk youth, current and former prison inmates, and others who are experiencing mental illness.