DECEMLAND SAMOA Country Profile
SAMOA GLOBAL SUMMARY TABLE IN FINAL PAGES Decemland World is a global initiative. Our goal is to dream of, imagine, design and communicate a beautiful long-term future for every country and territory and for the World. We think it’s possible to reach a World without extreme poverty before 2050, a World of Eutopia and Cornucopia. We have launched a worldwide recruitment process identifying and subsequently contacting millions of experts in every corner of the globe. Decemland Samoa encourages individual Experts to join the best team ever design to serve the longterm public interest of society. We are contacting thousands of Experts in every country and territory. Our goal is to put together a dream team in Samoa able to identify the great challenges of the twenty-first century. Figures updated as of 26-May-2014
SAMOA POPULATION (2014) 196.628 SAMOA EXPERTS CONTACTED 404 EXPERTS PER 100,000 PEOPLE CONTACTED 205 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED 11 RESPONSE RATE 2,72% EXPERTS CONTACTED IN OCEANIA 96.947 AVERAGE TEAM SIZE IN OCEANIA 8,86 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED IN OCEANIA 124 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED WORLDWIDE 2.739 Samoa Country Coordinator/s
VAVEAO TOA
Vaveao Toa started teaching in one of the government primary schools in the town area (Vaivase Primary School) in 1996. Towards the end of 1997 she received a teacher’s certificate as an official document. She then continued teaching in the same school and at the beginning of 1998 she enrolled in the National University of Samoa in Diploma of Arts course as a part time student. On her application for a partial scholarship she was awarded the scholarship. In 2002 she completed the course and received a diploma in arts certificate. In 2003 she enrolled in a Bachelor Degree course and received a partial scholarship. Her major areas of study included in his bachelor’s degree are Samoan Language and History (focused on Samoa). At the end of 2004 she received a Bachelor’s Degree. In 2005 she took up a teaching job at one of the private schools in Apia (Samoa Primary School) and worked there for two years (2005-2006). In December 2006 she was the successful applicant of the position Museum/Archives Officer as advertised by the Ministry of Education Sports and Culture under the Culture division. She has been recently appointed the Senior Archives Officer at the Culture Division of the Ministry of Education, Sports & Culture. She was not always an archives person, however studying the history of her country planted the interest in her to be involved in the safeguarding and safekeeping of archival documents which holds a great deal of Samoa’s identity.
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