Samoa Institute of Sport

"I put myself in their shoes and thought to myself what if that was me. I really wanted to do something and I’m not a doctor nor a nurse but there are other ways that we can help even if it's just giving out water and cooking soup.”

Those are the words of Eka Arp who co-founded The Helping Hands together with her sister-in-law arp and expresses so aptly the can-do spirit and servant leader that Eka is so widely known for.

We're proud to have her in our circle and have lost track of the countless times that Eka, Jamie and their family has offered Helping Hands to the Samoa Institute of Sport movement.

2019 People of the Year: Helping Hands Extending a hand is a simple gesture that has gone a very long way for two women who set up a charitable group to help families of those affected by the measles epidemic. Eka Arp and Apuauro Faaofo of...

We love Saturdays! Saturdays are made for creating memories with friends and family and what better avenue than playing sport?

Here are a few 📷 from the summer of 2018 when we delivered our first U12 touch program. Providing a safe space for kids to build new skills is priceless, and we love the work that we do.

We've been following Project Fatu efforts over these past few weeks as they worked to raise awareness and support for the

Leading the way are two Samoan Women's Basketball reps, Tui Hicks and sister Suiti who represented Samoa at the recent Samoa 2019 Pacific Games

Congratulations Tui, Suiti and family on your mammoth efforts, way to give back and serve.

Anyone who does anything for children is a hero to me - Fred Rogers

As you develop your goals for 2020 please consider volunteering your time to coach a local sports team. Sports provides many benefits for children and young people to develop their lifelong skills to create a successful life for themselves and their family. Research shows that coaches can have a significantly positive impact on those that they coach.

So if you're looking for a way to and find out how you can get involved as a coach in 2020. Be the hero that our kids need.

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven"

Keeping the in our prayers during this time. Our thoughts also with those at the frontline working hard to cease the spread of measles in our beautiful and beloved country.

God bless Samoa always!

A shout out to our coach, mentor and friend Eka Arp, whose NGO The Helping Hands are doing extraordinary things to meet the needs of the families affected by Measles.

To find out more about their work and how you can support, please check out their social accounts and give them a follow on FB and IG.

Children are our most precious gift.

Over the years we have been blessed with opportunities to lead sports programmes for the

Keeping our children locked in prayer at this time, as well as all those dedicated towards efforts to stop the spread of measles in its tracks.

Congratulations to our amazing director Philippa Te Hira-Matatia who will be attending the ESPN-Women Global Sports Mentoring Program, in the United States from October 10 - November 19.

We look forward to following your journey!

Congratulations and a big faamalo to Philippa Te Hira-Matatia who will be attending the ESPN-Women Global Sports Mentoring Program, in the United States from October 10 - November 19.

Even at an early age, Philippa Te Hira-Matatia knew and appreciated the inherent power of sport to challenge societal norms. With this as her guiding force, she attended the University of Auckland while also representing New Zealand in basketball and netball and Samoa in touch rugby.

After earning a postgraduate diploma in business and administration from Massey University, Philippa began her career in sports management 2016 when she co-founded the Samoa Institute of Sport. As a director, Philippa focuses on creating viable pathways that combines sports, education and leadership development and has completed organizing the XVI Pacific Games as head of the marketing and communications team. Philippa seeks to develop knowledge and networks that will help her to expand offerings for female athletes and their mentors.

Congratulations again!



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Its been a year since this conference and some of the athletes pictured here represented Samoa in the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games 🙌